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hey guys welcome back another harbour unbox video for this one we have a bit of an unusual comparison for you if you owned one of these back in 2012 you would have been pretty chuffed this was Nvidia's flagship graphics card at the time the GTX 680 it I packed quite the punch it was fast enough to dethrone the raid on HD 7970 but AMD did of course fire back with a gigahertz overclocked version of that card which sort of pushed a little bit ahead but anyway that's not the point of this story recently when putting together a massive titanfall 2 GPU comparison featuring over 40 graphics cards I noticed the new GTX 1052 I was actually able to beat in videos 2012 flagship GPU on paper this doesn't seem possible the GTX 680 features twice as many cuda cores packs much more compute performance and considerably more bandwidth in fact for virtually every comparison you can make the gtx 1050 Ti is much slower the exception of course being operating frequency officially the 1050 Ti is clocked a little over 30% higher however we know that for the most part the GP operates well above the suggested 1392 megahertz boost frequency our MSI card for example works at over 1.8 gigahertz for the most part making it at least 70% faster in terms of operating frequency we also know that the GTX 680 is based on the Kepler architecture and since then we have seen quite a large improvement in performance and efficiency most of which was delivered by the previous Maxwell generation probably the most interesting fact here being that 4 years ago the 680 was released at $500 us or 684 us Aussies whereas today the 1050 Ti can be picked up for just 140 us or 225 ozzie costing around three and a half times less we wonder can the 1050 Ti deliver a similar level of performance to the 680 well let's go find out first let's the other to compare in the new titanfall 2 game in the initial stages of our tests both GPUs are able to push over 50 fps at 1080p but 1050 Ti is consistently faster though and even pushes over 60 FPS at times once we reach the cutscene though the framerate takes a strong hit on both GPUs tipping down to the 40s performance he is similar though the 1050 TI does still stay ahead in the end the 680 drops as low as 35 fps while the 1050 TI only dipped 240 FPS on average the 1050 was for 10% faster in this test averaging 50 fps to the 680 s 44 FPS might knock you out you should be okay when you wake up last the most hostile Titan sit down apex predators copy that bTW mercenary stay down good Wow VP lifestyle for some reason we're having issues getting the river tuna over later sharp and years of war for the in-game statistics are quite small so you might find them difficult to follow nevertheless the minimum and average frame rate results for both cards can be found below but 1052 I only dropped down to 52 FPS which was slightly higher than the 50 fps the 680 drop to the average frame rate was also quite similar the 1050 to I was just 3% faster here for testing f1 2016 we use the ultra quality settings with SMA I enabled the in-game benchmark was used with the heavy rain option enabled for years on it's impressive to see that the GTX 680 can still deliver playable performance here with the quality settings maxed out still 2016 s low to mid range GTX 1050 - I was a bit more punchy only dipping 238 FPS while averaging 48 fps this made Nvidia's new budget GPU almost 12 percent faster than their four-year-old flagship part despite its age the GTX 680 still looks to be fairly well optimized for as arguably 2016 biggest first-person shooter the 1052 I might have been 9% faster on average but that still allowed the 680 to deliver a very playable 53 FPS while it never dipped below 40 FPS it's worth keeping in mind that we're testing using the ultra quality preset with tsaa enabled even at 1080p the game looks absolutely amazing and it is hard to believe that today PC gamers can enjoy these kind of visuals and frame rates on a hundred and forty dollar graphics card Bobby baby so slow granted overwatch is in a demanding game but we still really wanted to include it because there aren't any new technologies here that favor the newer GT x 1050 TI as a result both GPUs provided very similar performance both only dropped as low as 79 FPS while the 1052 I was just 2% faster on average for a negligible two frames per second difference the game played extremely well at tentative here using the ultra quality settings because we test it with bots enabled the runs aren't exactly the same but over the length of the run they seem to balance out quite well finally a quick look at Mirror's Edge catalyst he both GPUs delivered similar frame rates though the GTX 1050 was 3% faster the 1052 I did maintain a slightly better minimum frame rate as well here it was 7% faster and we believe this is mostly down to the larger memory buffer that said memory allocation on the 1050 Ti didn't rise above 1.9 gigabyte whereas it did on the 680 perhaps this is evidence of pascal's improved memory compression technology the previous gameplay footage just seen was recorded on our core i7 6700k test system however these power consumption results have been recorded using our core i3 6100 t system the average load power consumption results were taken from the six games just tested while the idle results have been reported after ten minutes of idle at the Windows 10 desktop the gameplay footage shown here is simply included for color and movement in other words it's a cunning ploy by us to try and keep you interested in whatever it is we're saying at the time so then looking at the 1052 eye we see it pushed the core i3 system to a total consumption of 116 watts very impressive stuff holy Batman just check out the figures from the 680 though sucking down a total of 225 watts made our core i3 rig look like a real power peak this thing just isn't polar bear friendly that's more than a 90% increase in total system power consumption well there you have it to think that just four years ago the GTX 680 was at the top of the single GPU graphics card pile at a price of 500 US dollars and today that same level of performance or rather slightly better performance can be had for just a fraction of that price even this time last year gamers were paying slightly more for the GTX 950 and yet the 1050 Ti is over 20% faster the little 1050 TI isn't just significantly cheaper than the 680 either it also consumes a fraction of the power making it cooler quieter and a little easier on your power bill the 1050 TI really is an awesome little graphics card and this is what I said in my original review however for a few extra fuel units you might be able to learn something a lot better and that will be the premise for next week's upcoming video so keep your eyes peeled for that one finally from all of us here at harbor unboxed I'm Steve you stay classy you