![]() ![]() Regardless, that's more than twice the amount of memory, and the result is that many cross-platform games are starting to increase their memory requirements on PC hardware. The PS4 has 8GB of unified GDDR5, while the Xbox One has also has 8GB but only 5GB for games. I mentioned earlier how the 1050 is basically on par with the performance of the PS4 / Xbox One in the graphics department, and those both have more total memory. So I can make the argument that the GTX 1050 is actually a great value … but I still have qualms with the 2GB VRAM. The UK market on the other hand favors the RX 470, with the 1060 3GB nipping at its heels. Interestingly, in the US market the GTX 1050 takes the top spot, just edging out the RX 470 4GB. ![]() So what's the best value in the budget range? Here's what it looks like when I break things down to fps per dollar (or pound): (And yes, that's the current price in the UK for the 1050. At $140 / £135, the GTX 1050 Ti has to contend with the close proximity of the RX 470, but $110 / £115 means the GTX 1050's only viable competition without spending significantly more money is the RX 460, and the 1050 generally wins that matchup. GTX 1050 aims to be the best overall budget GPU, provided you're willing to live with the 2GB VRAM limitation. This is with one of the earlier 950 cards that has a higher TDP and includes a 6-pin power adapter, so later 950 models should narrow the gap, but they also tend to run a bit slower. Under load, however, despite the similar performance between the GTX 1050 and GTX 950, the 1050 uses about 40W less power. I checked idle and load power draw on a different test system (Skylake instead of Broadwell-E), and found most of the graphics cards are pretty close on idle power use. The bottom line is that GTX 1050 outperforms the RX 460 4GB by around 10 percent on average, at a slightly lower price. In the games that don't support DX12/Vulkan, the margin of victory is even higher-Civ6, Fallout 4, Far Cry Primal, GTA5, and Shadow Warrior 2 show 20-40 percent leads. That might seem alarming, but half of the games in my test suite (eight, technically, with one that will get a DX12 patch later) can use a low-level API, and Nvidia still wins most of those matchups. Deus Ex, Doom, and Hitman all run better on the RX 460, thanks to DX12/Vulkan support, favoring AMD by 5-20 percent. But that also depends on what games you're playing. ![]() The GTX 1050 also beats the RX 460, which is probably a more important win-even when that card has twice as much VRAM. Anyone looking at the GTX 1050 and saying, "Yeah, that's exactly the sort of performance I need" could have said the same thing about the 950 any time in the past year. Overall, the GTX 1050 ends up being a few percent faster than the GTX 950, which isn't much. Cycle through the above images to see the individual gaming benchmarks. ![]()
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