I was wondering if you would compare your i5-4690 system with NVS 510 to the i7/RX580 Optiplex. Is there a major performance difference you can notice or do they seem about the same ? How are you using each one ? I know that the latter i7 system would massively outperform the i5/NVS 510 in anything graphic intensive. What about in everyday use. Do they both work as smoothly or does the AMD card make a major difference ? It will give non-gamers some idea whether it's worth it to spend $150 more for the RX580 instead of going for the low cost NVS 510 with a 4K monitor.
Sure! In a nutshell, for everyday web-browsing/docs/email/news/YouTube/iTunes/etc. They both are quite snappy, and I don't really feel much of a difference. Most of my setups use two screens; main screen in Landscape orientation in front, secondary screen in Portrait mode off to the side. The NVS 510 is fine for basic Photoshop work, although I have not yet done any Premiere/AE work on that card.
I use the RX 580 machine (booted into Win10) for FPS gaming, and that's where there is a huge difference. If you're planning on gaming while
simultaneously running Discord, YouTube, social media, Steam, etc. you'll definitely want an i7 CPU (
sooo not me).
I really like the NVS 510 cards, and they're a steal. (I've purchased a few, at an average of just under $36 shipped... just make sure the seller 'Accepts Returns'.) The NVS 510 sleeps/wakes properly whereas I still have to shut the RX 580 machine down instead of attempting sleep. Which is totally fine in my situation.
Every once in a while, one 9020-4690 box which is equipped with an NVS 510 will display high-resolution 'snow' instead of the waking-up login screen, and a press of ESC (or two) will snap it back. I'm still puzzling out the
why on that.
If you're not gaming (or needing the heftier card for some other GPU-intensive task), I would go with the NVS 510, hands down. You'll likely need to buy a couple of mini-DisplayPort to <whatever> cables, as few of us have extra mDP cables laying around.