GTX 1050 Under performing

[patrickpruett]

Win 10 AMD 8350 Black 16G 500GB SSD GTX Asus 1050 CM 550 PSU

Win 10 AMD 8350 Black 16G 500GB SSD GTX Asus 1050 CM 550 PSU

Before it fried itself, I had an RX 460 and it did a great job. Played most of the game I wanted at medium to high settings. Played WOW, Hearthstone, Fallout 4 and Doom.

Well, it fried itself so I heard the 1050 was supposed to be a little bit more powerful and found it a bit cheaper.

Installed it on a clean system so no old drivers. Ever since then, this thing has [watch your language]

Runs everything at 60+ fps at around 60% usage and then plummets to 20% usage and the fps drop into the teens. It never goes to 100% usage.

I just reinstalled Fallout 4 and it is unplayable. Even on low settings it is all over the place with the FPS. How did a 460 outperform a 1050 this much?

Did I just buy the wrong card or is something else up?

Any help appreciated.

 

[boju]

1050 is a little better https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.techspot.com/amp/review/1269-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1050/page6.html

Where did you buy the 1050 from? Im hoping not from ebay or sold from China. Sometimes you can tell if the card is fake if it has a vga port as no legit 1050 has one afaik.

 

[photonboy]

NO WARRANTY ON THE RX-460?

Installed NVidia graphics drivers?

Normally low GPU usage suggests the CPU is the bottleneck but that doesn't sound right... fake card? Doesn't sound right since you hit 60FPS+ and should have a rough idea of performance.

So why dropping now?

*Please run Unigine Valley and monitor the GPU usage for most of the levels once you transition the GPU usage should be at least 95% so let's see if that's the case.

(GPU frequency etc on RIGHT SIDE of screen in Unigine Valley are not correct. Just use another tool like MSI Afterburner or whatever)

If it can handle that, AND the score is roughly correct then it seems like the graphics card is fine, but again the RX-460 and GT1050 should be very similar overall.

RX-460 should beat GT1050 in DOOM by a small amount.
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_1050_Gaming_X/13.html

 

[patrickpruett]

1050 is a little better https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.techspot.com/amp/review/1269-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1050/page6.html

Where did you buy the 1050 from? Im hoping not from ebay or sold from China. Sometimes you can tell if the card is fake if it has a vga port as no legit 1050 has one afaik.

No. I bought it from a trusted local store. It has no VGA port, just DVI and HDMI. It is also hitting respectable FPS its the drops that are the issue.

 

[patrickpruett]

NO WARRANTY ON THE RX-460?

Installed NVidia graphics drivers?

Normally low GPU usage suggests the CPU is the bottleneck but that doesn't sound right... fake card? Doesn't sound right since you hit 60FPS+ and should have a rough idea of performance.

So why dropping now?

*Please run Unigine Valley and monitor the GPU usage for most of the levels once you transition the GPU usage should be at least 95% so let's see if that's the case.

(GPU frequency etc on RIGHT SIDE of screen in Unigine Valley are not correct. Just use another tool like MSI Afterburner or whatever)

If it can handle that, AND the score is roughly correct then it seems like the graphics card is fine, but again the RX-460 and GT1050 should be very similar overall.

RX-460 should beat GT1050 in DOOM by a small amount.
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_1050_Gaming_X/13.html

Ok, I am downloading UV to run tests. I have been monitoring the cores through MSIafterburner and none of them are maxing out. It does get close to reaching max temps, but I see no throttling.

There was a warranty but I purchased from states and live in South America. Returning it would have cost a lot.

 

[patrickpruett]

Ok, finished running VB.

It stuck at 99% usage and never dipped below 51% FPS and that was during the heavy rain/screen flare. It did dip a bit in transitions but I assumed that was normal.


Also, interesting thing. I turned on vsync and the GPU usage would not go above 80% and the frames would not go above 60.

So what next?

 

[uppercut4u]

I always disable vsync since it locks in FPS typically at 60fps. Make sure you have the latest NV driver installed. DONT install geforce experience. Make sure you do a custom install to do a clean install. You could try manually setting power target and fans in MSI afterburner utility.

 

[logainofhades]

Check your CPU temps. Those FX series CPU's were mini space heaters and could overheat easily. That could explain FPS drops, as the CPU clock goes down to keep the CPU from burning up. My FX 8320's had this problem.