I can assure you that this it is how it works. My dissertation was on 3D rasterisation - I am quite literally qualified to comment on this. :man:

If you don't have four years to spare for an Honours Degree, you might still be able to get your head around the numbers (although I don't hold out much hope for you). Here, this came up first in a Google search, and shows the differences in practice rather than theory. Plenty more here, too.

Yikes... this comment makes my head hurt. If you have evidence to support this "speculation", please do share - I'd be very interested to read it myself. But if you're correct, and it's pure speculation with nothing to back it up, what the hell was the point of sharing something so insubstantial? There's been speculation that AMD uses child labour, for example, but it would be ludicrous to go around spreading that rumour on sites discussing graphics cards without any evidence.

Unless... are you referring to the 3DMark incident in 2003?!?! :confused: Both NVIDIA and ATi were accused - and guilty - there! But that's hardly "speculation", of course. :laughing:

Cos it's barely any faster than a GTX 950, that itself is barely any faster than a GTX 760, that itself is slower than a GTX 670, which you can buy for £50.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&LH_ItemCondition=3000&_nkw=gtx+670&_sop=15

Graphics cards have been mostly stagnating for a few years now, it's a whole world of re-labellings of older products out there.

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Only reasons to buy this: if you have a low output PSU you can't change, want to save the planet 1 watt at a time, die of fright at the thought of not having a warranty, kid yourself it's better cos more RAM (when looking at a 1920x1080 monitor - long standing ploy with budget gfx cards, give them more ram!), or can't fit in a still modestly sized older/higher model graphics card.... can't think of much else.

If you want something cheaper *and* faster, then either a Radeon 290 is a few quid under this and substantially more powerful, or a 290x is about the same price and even-more-substantially so. Or spend the extra tenner and have a brand new RX 470 the next time it pops up on hukd cheap :smiley:

My son has just asked for a GTX1070 for Christmas, I didn't know video cards went that pricey. Glad he didnt ask for a 1080. Gulp

Amazon has price matched, though out of stock until December 11th.

damn, how is the 1050 this cheap already :smiley:

Used Flubit and managed to get the Gigabyte 1050Ti D5 mini last week for 134.87 with free delivery.

Just checked with Flubit on this card and its 132.56 incl delivery

My son has just asked for a GTX1070 for Christmas, I didn't know video cards went that pricey. Glad he didnt ask for a 1080. Gulp

because the 980ti is better

I suppose why this interests me anyway is that the 1050 TIs are the lowest 'VR-capable' Nvidia cards of this generation