Gonna need Sup Forums's PC masterrace expertise on this one.
I'm looking to update my GPU since i've been running an r9 270 (not X) for 3 years and i'm barely able to touch medium settings on new releases now. I did some research and people are telling me that if i upgrade to the 1050 ti i'll barely see a difference in performance, is this true?
The performance gain will be minimal, yes. If you want to see a noticeable improvement, you're going to want to get at least a 1060.
Zachary Reyes
so the GB on the card doesn't matter? wouldnt the 1050 ti have double the graphic capabilities than the 270 does?
Brody Brooks
The one you can find in stock.
Grayson Taylor
Naw, that's not how it works. It does have an effect, but it's not the main indicator. tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html You can always check this chart. They recommend not to upgrade unless you're going up 3 rungs, which according to this you're only going up 1.
Jaxson Powell
>i can't read
Bentley Sullivan
Who are you quoting?
Josiah Murphy
hm, i'll take note of that
last thing, this guy has my exact rig (minus windows 10) and he seems to be running at double the performance and settings than i can currently with my r9 270.
is that right? or is my setup just doing shit, i understand the 270 drivers are ass and theres are like no updates for it now.
Jonathan Scott
That's memory and usually the situation with memory is you either have enough or you don't* and the game will crash.
*Or you have a 970 with 3.5gigs of good memory and .5gigs or shitty memory and if you start having to use the shitty memory your performance tanks
Julian Jones
you, because that's what your post told me, since if you read the thread you'd know that i already own the 270.
Jayden Torres
That is probably an example of 2gb vs 4gb actually mattering. GTA V tends to be a hog in that regard.
Dylan Hernandez
I'd say it's more likely that FX-6300 bottlenecking him less than OP because nvidia is way better about driver overhead combined with the 1050 being slightly better and gta5 preferring nvidia
Zachary Walker
thanks for the help guys, any more info is highly appreciated. I just want to be able to play new releases at stable fps at atleast High.
Adam Green
well for one amd is out of stock
Elijah Butler
Probably that. On an unrelated note, do you know what really grinds my gears? People saying their card can "Max" all kinds of games, and when they get called out on it they say some dumb shit like >yeah dude, Textures on ultra, bloom enabled, I just put shadows on medium and turn off AA Fucking lying retards.
Joshua Sullivan
honestly probably the 1050ti just because it's a newer card
Isaiah Price
Give the OP a re-read and come back.
Jayden Myers
just get the 1060 6GB. Never try to save money on a GPU
Jordan Bennett
Don't AMD CPUs and GPUs do some magic that makes them work better together? Would that help OP?
Nolan King
Most newer games won't run at 60fps at high settings with a 1050ti
Aaron Watson
You can thank miners for not being able to find any in stock at a reasonable price.
Zachary Carter
There's really no point in buying the 1050ti with what you've already got, the performance increase will be minimal and you'll end up having to replace it anyway.
A far better option is to just save up a little extra and buy, minimum, a 1060 or so. The performance increase will be noticeable AND it'll actually last you a couple more years.
No real point in upgrading from a mid-range GPU to a slightly newer mid-range GPU. If you're gonna upgrade, upgrade, don't cheap out or you'll regret it. I learned this from experience...
Ethan Rogers
You used to be able to crossfire amd gpus with amd apus but he doesn't have an apu, and it didn't help much anyway.
Prior to zen, conventional wisdom was actually that amd processors and gpus don't mix well. AMD graphics drivers have a lot of overhead(this is why they're pushing vulkan so hard, reduces that overhead) and amd processors had shit single core performance that couldn't deal with their overhead. It's not as much a problem now that AMD is actually selling decent processors anymore, but it probably applies to the OP.
If you don't plan on going higher than 1080p, you can get a 970 on ebay for around $200 or less, it's more or less the best cheap gpu option on the market right now if you want to achieve between 50-70 fps in modern games like GTA V and Fallout 4. Sure the whole 3.5 gb of vram fiasco has gotten people pissed but most games these days don't use more than 3gb. Any resolutions higher than 1080p though will take a very noticeable fps hit.
Caleb Ramirez
Just fyi 1060s are SUPPOSED to cost $250ish so that's fine, but if you buy it right now you're basically getting ripped off because of miner markups.
Brody Ross
The 200 series is terrible, its actually just a hotter HD7000, the last driver updates caused crashing in most games.
Anthony Evans
>The 200 series being rebadged hd7000s was a bad thing
literally wtf am I reading the 7000 series are basically one of the best regarded series of all time. You still hear people talking about their ancient 7970s holding up today
