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Hello Guys, recently did a lot of research on what card to buy, and eventually thought of posting my entire knowledge over which my decision was based, hopefully you ppl will make use of it.
For most people a card of below $200 is extremely preferred and both the GTX 1050 Ti priced at around $150 and the GTX 1060 priced around $220 fulfill that whim with overwhelming positive impacts.
The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, in my opinion is the best among other GTX 1050's costing only $160 with a dual fan setup 4GB DDR5 VRAM and an appreciable over clocking headroom. It stand parallel to the GTX 770 in most situations but costs noticeably less and the fact that its 3 generations ahead provides obvious benefits along with better memory performance. The GTX 1050 Ti gives an average of 71 frames at 1440p everything maxed (except anti aliasing) in GTA 5 so that should give you an idea of this cards potency.
The GTX 1060 unexpectedly fulfills the performance gap between the GTX 970 and GTX 980, while costing dramatically less and roughly giving 40% performance boost compared to the GTX 1050 Ti. The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB starts at approximately $195 and a factory overclocked Gigabyte variant at $210. Benchmarking comparisons between the GTX 980, GTX 1060, GTX 1070 etc are ample and the card will prove completely worth the money you spend on it, the card runs at a respectable 60 FPS in The Rise of the Tomb Raider with maxed preset at 1440p. It manges 110 fps average on DOOM 1080p maxed. The 6GB VRAM version of the same card has only a meagre128 more CUDA cores compared to the 3GB VRAM version while costing $50 more. Thus it’s always profitable to buy the smaller VRAM version unless you want to game at resolutions higher than the typical 1920x1080 resolution for which both the cards i starred are optimized for.
Now to the downsides of the cards i mentioned. The GTX 1050 Ti as you would have already deduced is a better than the usual entry level graphics card and can NOT run modern and demanding titles like Ashes of Singularity at high settings and resolutions at all. This card is better for playing games released between 2011-2015 smoothly at high settings and at a mediocre resolution. Despite the fact that it has 4GB VRAM, it doesn't help, as usually the card is not powerful enough to overload its memory in the first place and stays within 2-3gb usage . I would recommend saving and buying the GTX 1060 instead. If you are just an E-sports gamer (dota addict) the GTX 1050 can run all popular multiplayer titles like CS:GO at more than 80 frames quite easily, and the card is cheap, like $100 cheap
The GTX 1060 3GB, it’s as close as you are going to get to the best price: performance card. There is a huge price difference between this and the other cards, example the GTX 1070 costs around $400. The 3GB VRAM version does have its own disadvantages. If some of you are familiar with Skyrim/Fallout texture modding, u may know that VRAM has no impact on performance till the point u actually run out of it and then the desperate computer starts swapping textures to and from the much slower standard DDR3/4 RAM in your computer; this may lead to stuttering at the least or game crashes at the most especially in hugh-mungus open world games drawing an intense amount of textures instantly. That being said these cases do usually happen in highly unoptimized games and the GTX 1050Ti does have technically better memory performance compared the GTX 1060 with an extra 1GB VRAM and faster memory bandwidth and speed BUT the calculations for rendering graphics, shadows, lighting etc are done by both the shader and core clock in which the GTX 1060 is better. It actually completely depends on what type of game you play and whether or not it specializes in loading large amount of textures or applies breathtaking post processing effects like SSAO, god rays, lightshafts and sun glare. Whatever card you choose you will still be able to play most games with the proper configurations and in any case the visuals won’t be bad enough to literally give you eye cancer. The cards do almost balance each other out in terms of raw performance so it won’t be appropriate to trade off one for the other and besides, there are still quite a few games which actually use more than 3gb of VRAM.
Also pay attention to power requirements.
For most people a card of below $200 is extremely preferred and both the GTX 1050 Ti priced at around $150 and the GTX 1060 priced around $220 fulfill that whim with overwhelming positive impacts.
The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, in my opinion is the best among other GTX 1050's costing only $160 with a dual fan setup 4GB DDR5 VRAM and an appreciable over clocking headroom. It stand parallel to the GTX 770 in most situations but costs noticeably less and the fact that its 3 generations ahead provides obvious benefits along with better memory performance. The GTX 1050 Ti gives an average of 71 frames at 1440p everything maxed (except anti aliasing) in GTA 5 so that should give you an idea of this cards potency.
The GTX 1060 unexpectedly fulfills the performance gap between the GTX 970 and GTX 980, while costing dramatically less and roughly giving 40% performance boost compared to the GTX 1050 Ti. The EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB starts at approximately $195 and a factory overclocked Gigabyte variant at $210. Benchmarking comparisons between the GTX 980, GTX 1060, GTX 1070 etc are ample and the card will prove completely worth the money you spend on it, the card runs at a respectable 60 FPS in The Rise of the Tomb Raider with maxed preset at 1440p. It manges 110 fps average on DOOM 1080p maxed. The 6GB VRAM version of the same card has only a meagre128 more CUDA cores compared to the 3GB VRAM version while costing $50 more. Thus it’s always profitable to buy the smaller VRAM version unless you want to game at resolutions higher than the typical 1920x1080 resolution for which both the cards i starred are optimized for.
Now to the downsides of the cards i mentioned. The GTX 1050 Ti as you would have already deduced is a better than the usual entry level graphics card and can NOT run modern and demanding titles like Ashes of Singularity at high settings and resolutions at all. This card is better for playing games released between 2011-2015 smoothly at high settings and at a mediocre resolution. Despite the fact that it has 4GB VRAM, it doesn't help, as usually the card is not powerful enough to overload its memory in the first place and stays within 2-3gb usage . I would recommend saving and buying the GTX 1060 instead. If you are just an E-sports gamer (dota addict) the GTX 1050 can run all popular multiplayer titles like CS:GO at more than 80 frames quite easily, and the card is cheap, like $100 cheap
The GTX 1060 3GB, it’s as close as you are going to get to the best price: performance card. There is a huge price difference between this and the other cards, example the GTX 1070 costs around $400. The 3GB VRAM version does have its own disadvantages. If some of you are familiar with Skyrim/Fallout texture modding, u may know that VRAM has no impact on performance till the point u actually run out of it and then the desperate computer starts swapping textures to and from the much slower standard DDR3/4 RAM in your computer; this may lead to stuttering at the least or game crashes at the most especially in hugh-mungus open world games drawing an intense amount of textures instantly. That being said these cases do usually happen in highly unoptimized games and the GTX 1050Ti does have technically better memory performance compared the GTX 1060 with an extra 1GB VRAM and faster memory bandwidth and speed BUT the calculations for rendering graphics, shadows, lighting etc are done by both the shader and core clock in which the GTX 1060 is better. It actually completely depends on what type of game you play and whether or not it specializes in loading large amount of textures or applies breathtaking post processing effects like SSAO, god rays, lightshafts and sun glare. Whatever card you choose you will still be able to play most games with the proper configurations and in any case the visuals won’t be bad enough to literally give you eye cancer. The cards do almost balance each other out in terms of raw performance so it won’t be appropriate to trade off one for the other and besides, there are still quite a few games which actually use more than 3gb of VRAM.
Also pay attention to power requirements.
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