GTX 1050 TI or RX 470?

[Ryota kise]

I can't afford a high end gpu as the miner's r eating them up and the price is too high! so within range i have two options,, Rx 470 or Gtx 1050 TI? .. Can u please suggest me which 1 would be better??

[iRileyx]

Assuming you can actually find a 470 at the same/similar price to a 1050ti, definitely the 470.

 

Though they also get eaten up by miners, so I doubt you'll find a cheap one.

[bakidota]

definitely not 470, wastes too much power

[LienusLateTips]

Assuming they are within $30-40 of each other, the 470.

[WereCat]

470 is better

[Mike Soda]

2 minutes ago, Ryota kise said:

I can't afford a high end gpu as the miner's r eating them up and the price is too high! so within range i have two options,, Rx 470 or Gtx 1050 TI? .. Can u please suggest me which 1 would be better??

Maybe try finding a used 970, that's around the same performance at a 1050Ti or 3GB 1060 I've heard.

[LienusLateTips]

1 minute ago, bakidota said:

definitely not 470, wastes too much power

It doesn't make a difference much, even in higher cost areas. 

[LienusLateTips]

1 minute ago, Mike Soda said:

Maybe try finding a used 970, that's around the same performance at a 1050Ti or 3GB 1060 I've heard.

1050Ti.

[Jurrunio]

4 minutes ago, bakidota said:

definitely not 470, wastes too much power

It's RX 470, a 120w card (though when I'm using one, the software reports 100w), not GTX 470

[DocSwag]

14 minutes ago, bakidota said:

definitely not 470, wastes too much power

Yes, because an extra $3 to your electricity bill per year will make that much of a difference.

[Nena Trinity]

470 if you find one...

[Morgan MLGman]

32 minutes ago, JDE said:

1050Ti.

A GTX 970 is quite a bit faster than a 1050Ti, it can handle 1440p gaming just fine if you're careful with the AA and texture settings (due to VRAM limitations).

14 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

470 if you find one...

Haven't seen you in a while!

 

OT: Assuming the prices are similar, an RX 470 is a no-brainer in this case.

[Nena Trinity]

2 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

A GTX 970 is quite a bit faster than a 1050Ti, it can handle 1440p gaming just fine if you're careful with the AA and texture settings (due to VRAM limitations).

Haven't seen you in a while!

 

OT: Assuming the prices are similar, an RX 470 is a no-brainer in this case.

Hi! :3

[Bananasplit_00]

RX 470 is much better

[KarathKasun]

Another vote for RX 470, much better than the GTX 1050 Ti.

[Yung Lead]

RX 470 for sure

[Gyuwona]

470 is way better, but wait for the mining shit to calm down, prices are crazy right now

[sikari2015]

here's a good site to check out all sorts of cards and how they perform at the same task...

 

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

[deXxterlab97]

6 minutes ago, sikari2015 said:

here's a good site to check out all sorts of cards and how they perform at the same task...

 

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

Passmark is very unreliable. Plus you buy GPUs to play games, not to run benchmarks thus a real world example of how those GPU perform in-game would be a much better comparison.

[sikari2015]

22 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Passmark is very unreliable. Plus you buy GPUs to play games, not to run benchmarks thus a real world example of how those GPU perform in-game would be a much better comparison.

But how do you know which GPU to buy if it wasn't for benchmarking?

 

Passmark is a good place to start, especially when you're trying to find USED cards that aren't current generation. It gives you an idea of comparative, current day performance levels, and then you can actually go on to research the cards in more depth.

 

If you used Passmark you would know how it benchmarks. By rendering game sequences through the various Direct X versions. It's a repeatable, quantifiable number which can be used to compare products. Passmark is one of the better ones because you can get further details including the full details of the computers the scores came from. So if you have a 4th Gen processor it's likely you will find one result of the graphics card you're interested in with the same, or very similar, CPU and system build.

 

For example, in two days of submitted results, someone with an i9-7900x got an RX 470 to score 8351, well above the average for the card of 7496, whereas someone with a AMD A8-7650k only scored 6326 with their RX 470.

 

 

Plus another thing... Passmark is CONSTANTLY updated. Thousands of submissions of the most readily available hardware daily provide an EXCELLENT bell curve and average scores. FAR greater than the half dozen review articles you could find near the time of release of the hardware. Plus, unlike UL Benchmarks for 3D Mark, Passmark actually shows you the number of submissions to get the average score.

 

What good are 2 year old reviews, because that's when the RX 470 came out. Reviews which actually use game testing are rarely updated with the latest performance results of old hardware.