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every year we consider all of the data collected for our recent reviews of cases CPUs and video cards and then build our annual buyers guides around those tests those are published on the website for Black Friday and Cyber Monday and the second guide for this year is today's gns choice of best AIB partner video cards under two hundred dollars and it's a sort of roundup in that regard the first guide was the top 1440p monitors we've used this year if you're curious for more but before we get into that this content is brought to you by the rosewill cullinan tempered glass case which will soon be available for 120 dollars the free 700 watt balance power supply keep an eye out for that sale on november 21st on amazon follow the link below for more I've also got links at below for all of the video cards in this gns choice video this content draws a clear line between the price points for each major GPU that exists in the sub two hundred dollar market so we looked around for cards that are at or below MSRP which is rare this generation of GPS from both have the end Nvidia as many of you know and have pointed out and thankfully some of the prices are finally starting to fall in the latter half of the year so this is a quick reference guide for the low end you'll get the most depth with all the caveats and all that stuff in our major device reviews the standalone reviews but hopefully this helps create a sort of cheat sheet for sales coming up for Black Friday Cyber Monday things like that will resurrect some of our benchmarks from this year to help with that as well and keep in mind price is mentioned here we're at time of filming so if you click the links below you'll go to the card the price may have changed but that's the best we got for you here's our table we put together on the website yesterday these are devices which perform to our standards for the GPUs on the device and also the cards that are listed here have you priced lower than the competition or at least at MSRP we're starting with the msi gtx 1063 gigabyte OC card which happens to currently have a fifteen dollar mir mail-in rebate and it's priced at the MSRP of 200 before mir the card uses dual axial fans for its cooling solution with the usual assortment of heat pipes and fins to do the rest and to be fair mail-in rebates are normally a huge pain and often have contingencies but it's worth a shot as long as you're mentally paired end up spending 200 instead of 185 for those of you in other countries as long as the GTX 1063 gigabyte is close in price to the RX 484 gigabyte card all this content will remain relevant and if it's more expensive by more than a couple bucks the deal worsens obviously the GTX 1063 gigabyte generally outperformed and these are X 480 for gigabyte in our testing as seen on these charts from our 1063 gigabytes versus our X 480 for gigabyte benchmarks note though that our tests were with an EVGA 1063 gigabyte at reference clocks or 1708 megahertz boost whereas the MSI OC version is cheaper and has a clock rate that's 51 megahertz higher in that zone would recommend in here and GTA 5 as tested back in October for that benchmark we saw the GTX 1063 gigabyte performing better than the RX 44 gigabyte and averages and lows generally running a few FPS faster in averages gears for was an interesting test as well we saw better averages on the 1063 gigabyte with better frame times on the RX 44 gigabyte in this chart but that is almost entirely because gears for is inconsistent and its frame time delivery on all devices really and just in case you're curious the 1063 gigabyte an RX 44 gigabyte are both capable of 1440p gaming at sort of easier settings depending on the game they're not really targeted at it but if you wanted to you could upscale in for instance GTA 5 which would run out about 60 FPS average on both devices with faster lows on the 1063 gigabyte but we already have a full video and article specifically on the 1063 vs RX 484 gigabyte cards you can check that out for the full depth as always but for now we're recommending the msi 1063 gigabyte card with its 185 post mir price as of today but that may go up to 200 and if it does then look into our alternative choice which is the RX 484 gigabyte card that we've got shown here and that is currently shipping as a bonus with civilization 6 and that's on a couple AMD devices so if that's on your holiday buying list then basically you're saving 60 bucks if you're not buying it anyway it's not really doing anything for you so don't don't dig into that hype to that marketing too much but you want it and you save some money so that is a worthwhile consideration and gives 1060 some competition in a different way which is a free game code if you check newegg there's technically an RX 484 gigabyte card from power color for 190 dollars but the heat sink design sort of turned us off the cooling will be a problem for single fan pcs coolers with this particular device and that's important for sustaining clock rates instead we'd recommend either the gigabyte g1 gaming our X 480 for 220 dollars with a twenty-dollar rebate so that brings it down to 200 or the power color red dragon for two hundred dollars without any rebates it's just 200 flat and both use axial fans for cooling two of them gigabytes g1 gaming is pre overclocked though to 1290 megahertz while the PCs card runs stock at 1266 and that's boost the difference will be a few percentage points in FPS that you can fairly easily apply an OC through wat man if desired we don't recommend the g1 gaming unless you're getting the rebate as that price is encroaching on RS 488 gigabyte territory and the 8 gigabytes for 80 or 1066 gigabyte would make more sense once you're north of two hundred twenty dollars anyway in our original content we encouraged looking into the higher vram alternatives to these those would be in the 240 to 250 dollar range wow the one advantage of the two-hundred-dollar cards as we noted in those original reviews is that if you are in a unique price situation where an extra forty or fifty dollars is the difference between a better cpu or adding an SSD vs not having one then it might be worth saving the fifty bucks from the video card budget and putting it towards one of those upgrades next card power colors are X for 70 red devil is one of the best buys in this list perhaps tied with MS is at 1063 gigabyte at 185 the RX 470 red devil is currently 170 after mir though the price did just increase and it's sort of frustrating the price was 160 dollars after rebate yesterday when I wrote the article and posted it but the base price not the rebate price changed the base price changed and increased to a hundred and eighty five dollars now so that brings down with rebate to 170 rather than the 160 originally so it was at 170 which is actually the new srp for the RX 470 it's a decent price considering the original launch prices of about two hundred dollars despite a 180 listing price but still the card is cheaper than its competition it's a decent card and we would recommend it but hopefully the prices drop again as we approach Black Friday just to give an idea of where the RX 470 stacks up against nearby competition here's a look at our metro last light chart from the GTX 1050 review so that is important because it means it's using pretty recent drivers for both devices the RX 470 performs at 70 FPS average in this particular game a good deal ahead of the 1050 TI and the RX 470 also runs battlefield one brand new game with the x11 at 1080p Ultra settings with an FPSO about 75 average with a 1050 TI gaming ex the more expensive msi card at 160 165 dollars is 58 FPS average that's a big difference considering the gaming x version is one of the cards for the 1050 islets price similar to an RX 470 the 470 makes a lot more sense to buy in our review of the gtx 750ti we recommended the RX 470 over the 1050 TI generally but the gtx 1050 over the RX 460 so there's been a bit of swapping between Nvidia and AMD here we also noted one important point for the gtx 750ti if you can find them for MSRP at one hundred forty dollars not the 160 dollar price range of a lot of the aib partner models they make sense for folks who would otherwise not be able to afford an i5 cpu so for example if an RX 470 eats into cpu budget and forces something like an i3 then the thirty dollar savings from a gtx 1050 TI can be put toward better components same argument we made for the 200 verse 2 50 out of cards aside from this use case the 1050 TI is surrounded by two cards that handle its flanks well so that does make it a bit awkward recommend sometimes and our gns choice article on the website lists the msi 1050 ti OC as an honorable mention that's 140 dollar model with one fan and it's shown on the screen now but still if you can grab an RX for 74 gigabyte for 170 to 180 which is the new MSRP sapphires got a few power colors got a few XFX as a few then we'd strongly consider those instead finally for the low end we're recommending the g x 1050 over the RX 460 the 1050 outperforms the 460 considerably in a few of the games we tested and at least by some margin in every game we tested it's just a better performer now the 460 did have a price drop of ten dollars to $100 MSRP technically there's a few that are online for about ninety six but at 110 the gtx 950 does make better sense at the low end in the same way that the RX 470 makes more sense at its price point that a 1050 TI partner model at 165 or whatever it is zotac gtx 1050 mini is one of the smallest cards on the market right now and marks itself the top of our list for SF fitx for htpc boxes we found the GTX 1050 to be perfect for lower intensity games like overwatch dota 2 csgo and rocket league and just as a mini sampling of our original test which you can find on the channel of the website the performance for overwatch on a GTX 1050 was about 92 FPS average with ultra settings at 1080p dota 2 operated about 148 FPS average though had a wide frame time range across all tested devices and the GTX 1050 even handles GTA 5 with very high and ultra settings at about 57 FPS average pretty remarkable for this price range if you wanted mods though you'd probably want to go with the four gigabyte 1050 TI or something better like the 470 because once you start adding those the two gigabyte 1050 will begin to struggle a bit so that's it for this buyer's guide will be doing a few more of these two wrap the year but basically digging back through all of the data from components tested this year all the cases and coolers and SSDs things that have gone through the lab either saw publication a while ago or never made its publication we're revisiting all that compiling it into these roundups and hopefully help some folks out make some decisions for the holiday season so as always patreon link in the post roll video to help us out directly we have a couple more of these coming up so subscribe 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