Radeon RX 570 vs. GeForce GTX 1050 Ti: What's the best $150 GPU?

[That Dude There]

I just bought the RX 470 on newegg for $100 for a friends budget build.

 

[That Dude There]

Some like Wildkat will mention the power difference, which is fair.

However, the performance difference is so massive that you could always down clock the rx570 to match performance at which point the power difference would be negligible.

DOWN clock??? NEVERRRRRRRR lol

 

[Danny101]

I bought an Asus Stridex 570 in Dec. 2017 for around $237.00. I searched for 3 days until I decided on this deal. I suppose it was during the crypto bubble. I have an old HD 4350 that considering switching to for I don't have a need for gaming at the moment. I really haven't pushed it. I played a little Fallout New Vegas, Resident Evil Remake playthrough, and YouTube. I have no plans to at the moment. I'm just too busy for gaming right now, and by the time I have the time, I'll be looking for a higher end card. Should be able to get $100 easily.

 

[Linux7055]

All good stuff but it ignores one very important factor - The 570 is a power hog that can peak at 200W+ in extreme situations and pulls 150W+ in normal gaming. Given the market is for lower cost gamers, the need for a beefy power supply - AMD recommends a 450W minimum - doesnt make sense. Compare that to the 1050Ti that won't draw a single watt over the 75W rating.

I just put a 1050ti in an old Dell Studio XPS 8100 (i7 870, 2.93ghz) with a 350W PSU. The 570 wasn't even an option because I didnt want to stress the system that much (Irony - it came with a ATI Radeon HD 5770 which also needs a 450W PSU according to ATI which leads me to believe Dell was throttling it). Yes, I could have replaced the PSU too but if you have ever done that in a Dell, you know why I didnt.

Bottom line, while they are price competitive, the 1050ti is BY FAR the best price/FPS/Watt performer out there and if you are building a lower end system or upgrading a lower end system, it is a great GPU.

What concerns me more is the heat they generate. I previous owned 2 rx 480s a Gigabyte G1 and a Msi Gaming X (not in crossfire). Under load both cards ran at 80C and were abnoxiously loud. Maybe I had poor case airflow, but 2 fans should be enough. I ended up returning them both and bought myself a used gtx 1070, and I couldnt happier. My 1070 is much faster, quieter, cooler, and less power hungry. It never surpassed 73C and the fan never spun faster than 60%. You need to have more than adequate airflow in your case if you want to run an AMD card. I think thats too much for the average gamer to worry about. For this reason I am not buying AMD again until they learn to be power efficient. I know AMD fanboys will scream at me to undervolt, but thats too much trouble to ask for.

 

[Lew Zealand]

I undervolt my CPU to reduce heat/save power but is there undervolting software for Nvidia cards? I bought during the fringes of the mining craze so it was Nvidia for me. I use Afterburner to set core and sometimes memory clocks per game but the only options are to increase voltage, not reduce it. Or am I supposed to enforce a constant voltage, like 1.02v, in an attempt to undervolt?

 

[Sausagemeat]

Have to go pretty far down the stack to find a win for AMD at this point. But a win is still a win. The only reason I can see why you might want a 1050ti is if you need CUDA for whatever reason or you have a system that doesn’t have a very good power supply as I believe the 1050ti is the fastest GPU that doesn’t need external power connectors. Other than that though the 570 should be everyone’s first choice at this price.

 

[vgiozo]

Wow I can't stop laughing with the Nvidia owners splitting hairs on power consumption. The RX560-RX570-RX580 are very good cards for the money. AMD's Wattman is very good on tuning your card for overclocking or under volt your card. What shocks me is just spending a min to fiddle with the RX560-RX570 you can get some real nice boost in gaming. I don't have a RX 580 to mess around with yet but AMD did a good job with the their low and mid cards for the money. My RX560 fans only kick in when gaming but it runs cool and quiet.

Dimitrie,

Silent Computing is important for many people. So you need to minimize power-draw in order to do that in the most efficient manner.

It's not just the power requirements for the PSU, though...

....PSUs have a fan of their own and the FAN CURVE relative to the POWER DRAW is where it all comes down to.... and while many PSU nowadays have a zero RPM setting for about a 40-50% power draw, the goal is to stay within the limits.

So PRICE / PERFORMANCE wise, the Geforce 1050 Ti is not the best money can buy, far from it.
but
WATT / PERFOMANCE wise, Geforce 1050 Ti is the best you can get for the specifications, depending on your requirements.

MY CASE:
I have a 1080p Monitor & a 4K TV...I want to be able to use both them at the same time at their highest/native resolution.

I currently own a Ryzen 2200G + Asrock B450 Fatality, which has 1*HDMI and 1*DP 1.2 port....
- the HDMI out only supports 4K at @30Hz,
- while the DP>HDMI converter doesn't allow me to go over 1080p
- even so, it's doubtful that running the two screens at the same times at their native resolution is supported.

The 1050 Ti is the cheapest VGA that supports running these monitors at their max concurrently AND the lowest WATT Consumption available.

Not a wattage/quality limitation on the PSU...it's a power-draw / fan curve limitation I wish to avoid....and I don't want to have to buy a 750W PSU of equal top quality to be able to run 2 monitors at the same time.

 

[Cycloid Torus]

Did AMD ever resolve issue "VESA mode 103" conflict with the older Dell systems? I bought GTX 1050 TI due to reports that AMD R series cards could not access BIOS.