The Best $100 Entry-Level GPU: Radeon RX 560 vs. GeForce GTX 1050 > Wrapping Things Up: Taking Averages

Wrapping Things Upwards: Taking Averages

The GTX 1050 wins comfortably when information technology comes to power consumption with the entire arrangement using just 144 watts under gaming load, xvi% less than the RX 560 in the same system. While a clear loss for the red team in this category, it'south not a deal billow either.

We have a few graphs that summarize the performance covered on previous pages to help y'all decide which entry-level GPU is the best choice for your gaming rig. First permit'southward take a look at the average performance across the 30 games tested:

When I was summarizing the results for each game information technology felt like the GTX 1050 was coming out well ahead, and then I was shocked to find that performance was much the same overall after tallying up all the results. In fact, the 1050 was just 1fps faster for both the boilerplate and minimum frame rate. Let's move on to have a better wait at the margins per game.

I love these graphs as they give us a clear picture of the overall operation, highlighting where the wins and losses were. The biggest outlier is apparently Doom and this is a small issue given that it's possible the RX 560 was adulterous in this championship with its 4GB VRAM buffer. Again, this is the only game I know of that might favor the larger retention buffer under playable conditions for these entry-class GPUs.

I'1000 non too worried about including Doom's results as removing them only changes the overall standings by a single digit: the RX 560 becomes 3% slower without Doom. Feel free to recalculate if yous want but equally I said, it doesn't alter the overall picture and that'due south the beauty of testing with such a massive amount of games.

The RX 560 was faster by a 5% margin or greater in just vi games while it was slower by a 5% margin or greater in 12 games.

So, given their close performance, would I buy the RX 560 or GTX 1050? To me, the pick still seems pretty articulate on this one and I'thousand sticking with the determination I made eight months ago when I outset recommended the GTX 1050.

Of the 30 games tested, the 1050 offered superior operation in well over half of them and was also slightly faster overall. On tiptop of that, it consumes less power (doesn't even require an external PCIe ability connector) and overclocks better, which is important every bit many buyers would want to squeeze every terminal frame from a card in this category.

The RX 560 would take to be a tad cheaper for me to purchase information technology over the GTX 1050. In my stance, the merely real reward the RX 560 has is FreeSync support, if you can have reward of that, and so information technology might brand sense at the same toll as the 1050.

Shopping shortcuts:

Radeon RX 560 on Amazon
Radeon RX 560 on Newegg
GeForce GTX 1050 on Amazon
GeForce GTX 1050 on Newegg

To wrap up our latest benchmark battle, I should note that I'm still non a fan of the GTX 1050 Ti unless you can get it at a discount. The Ti edition typically sells for $140, which works out to 40% more than the standard 1050 while delivering simply 15% more frames on average.