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so recently I put together a top 5 worst cpu video and for whatever reason you guys seem to love the hell out of that one I had a heap of requests through the same with GPUs so today we're gonna see what that looks like remember this is just meant as a bit of fun and if you have one of these GPUs nestled away on your graphics card don't be offended we're certainly not saying you're stupid for buying what are anything like that just meant as a bit of fun so let's get into it kick-starting the worst GPU pics I decided to go mobile for mobile baby some of you might have got that anyway for the longest time now mobile gaming has been pretty rubbish if I'm honest and I am these latest efforts on that front are about as ordinary as it gets the Radeon RX 400 series actually represented pretty good value on the desktop though in comparison to NVIDIA GeForce 10 series it wasn't the most power efficient this sadly didn't bode well for the Radeon RX m 400 series the M of course indicating that this is a mobile part the RX 470 was the budget King on the desktop and it was really the must have sub $200 GPU for laptops though it was the must avoid at all costs GPU the RX m 400 series proves so bad for laptops that very few brands even offered models supporting them as just mentioned power consumption was the key issue here and that causes a knock-on effect for mobile parts that destroys pretty much everything the poor efficiency meant that aim des had to cut the Radeon rx m4 70 X down to 896 stream processors from the 2048 SP use of the desktop part a massive 56% reduction this method the mobile rx 470 performed at best like a desktop rx 460 and if you recall the 460 was embarrassingly slow ultimately this meant that the Radeon m4 70 X ended up offering rx 460 light performance with power consumption that was comparable to that of this significantly faster GTX 1060 so laptops that used AMD solution were thick layout and sadly much slower I have to admit I had a seriously hard time trying to work out which GPU I should pull the trigger on for this category I really wanted to only go back a few years to keep the pics somewhat relevant and I narrow it down to a few options from both AMD and NVIDIA I ended up those settling on the Radeon r9 285 the model that unveiled the GC and a third generation architecture in late 2014 about a year after the original Radeon 200 series cards were first introduced there really are so many reasons why I picked this GPU but I'd say chief among which was just the terrible timing of their release as I said it was almost year after the first 200 series models arrived and that meant that the r9 285 wasn't released till September 2nd 2014 and it came at an MSRP of 250 dollars u.s. back in 2014 I wrapped up my review by saying this at $249 the r9 285 doesn't exactly redefine the landscape with only 4% more performance on average than the car that will be replacing the r9 280 even if you discount the big loss and Tomb Raider which could possibly be driver related the on line 25 is still just 6% faster than the r9 280 bringing a four to six percent boost for the same price obviously isn't bad but we're not sure the i9 285 was completely necessary either I also noted that the Sapphire card was overclocked by 5% from factory so that could inflate the scores by two to three percent making the margin between the r9 285 and r9 280 even thinner the r9 285 did come with free sync support though and enhanced DirectX 12 capabilities but at the same time neither of those were terribly useful back then another impossible even more serious issue was the arrival soon thereafter of the GeForce GTX 970 which was released the same month and it offered considerably more performance for a mere 30% increase in price so within the same month of its release the r9 285 faced a serious price cut just to remain relevant ultimately there really was nothing wrong with the to 85 perhaps the two gigabyte vram buffer was questionable but the main issue being that it was just released too late in the game and came right before the GTX 970 and of course even before the GTX 970 arriver just didn't change anything in the market and ultimately disappointed with the latest iteration of the gcn architecture it was really a bit of a buzz killer you can say it's hard to believe that the GeForce GTX 780 series is roughly four years old now that said though it is really showing its age when compared to the r9 390 the GTX 780 has certainly slipped further behind today and it's no secret now that the Kepler architecture just hasn't aged well it's either down to the architecture itself or in video perhaps neglecting driver development or maybe just a bit of both either way we've never seen an Nvidia architecture fall away quite like our Kepler house Kepler also marked the birth of the insane $1,000 Titan series and really set the tone for in videos enthusiasts boning tactics you know where they release a $1,000 model and later that year release a price that delivers pretty much the same or perhaps even better performance very much easier to swallow price like what they did with the GTX 780 Ti yep it has to be said the GTX 780 Ti seemed like the ultimate gift to high-end game is in late 2013 and then by 2015 the ultimate curse today the Kepler based GPUs have become so nerfed in modern games they're really no longer worth even buying you'd have to pick up the once-mighty GTX 780 Ti for pocket change to even consider it it's really not a great deal fast in the GTX 1052 and a lot of modern titles but uses around a hundred and fifty percent more power thankfully though we are yet to see a noticeable decline in performance for the following generation the Maxwell based stuff the GTX 970 980 and 980ti still perform very well in modern titles but as always we are keeping a close eye on this stuff well there were a few candidates for this category but come on who's going to dispute this pick the Pascal based Titan range doesn't get any more confusing strange bizarre than that so in video world the world when they announced an insane Titan X and I don't mean the Maxwell based tight next in 2015 that was the GeForce GTX Titan X I'm of course talking about the Nvidia Titan X yeah the Pascal version okay so confusingly on August 2nd 2016 we got a second graphics card from a video to be named Titan X since this was all very confusing some of us reviewers decided to rename the Pascal based Titan X to the Titan XP XP was cool for a few reasons obviously the P stands for Pascal but XP or experience points is also something you are rewarded with in modern games you get enough XP and you can level up so there's a bit of a fun play on that so while a questionable and still quite possibly dumb decision by Nvidia's marketing team we all just moved on and got on with the benchmarking then a little over half a year later in videos marketing team decided to troll us all once again and actually released a Titan XP can you believe that well you probably can because it happened like five months ago now but still I mean the point is is it really even stupidity at this point it just seems like an obvious trolling attempt to me Nvidia stylized it as Titan X a little P and for a while there we had the tight next big P and now we had the little P I gave up on that though it was a fun joke for a little bit but it really just got too stupid annoying to continue with anyway as it turns out the Titan XP can only be purchased through Nvidia for an eye-watering $1200 us and it's really no faster than a custom GTX 10 atti for gaming okay so wrapping things up it's time for me to pick what I feel is the worst reference card designed by either AMD or Nvidia in the past few years to be honest it might have actually been easier to pick one that didn't just flat-out suck though actually know that that might have actually been harder looking over my shortlist of candidates I have to say there was definitely more from AMD on that list than there was from Nvidia don't get me wrong now in video has had some shockers over the years but with a much larger budget to work with they've been largely able to correct the poor designs of the past plus they're now charging a price premium for their reference card but Founders Edition so it kind of seems like cheating anyway we didn't have to go too far back to find an AMD reference cooler that doubles as a leaf blower one of my favorite AMD GPUs of recent memory was the Radeon r9 290 it was an amazingly good value buy although I did initially test the reference model back in 2013 we still gave it an overall score of 95 out of 100 one of the highest scores would given a GPU at the time that said though I did note that far more results were less than desirable and this added to my anticipation of third-party designs the r9 290 screamed like a jet but I was confident board partner models would be much better and indeed they were sadly that was a long two-month wait before we got quality board partner cards that could tame the r9 290 unfortunately rubbish reference designs are still the bane of AMD's existence and they seem unable to do anything about it money is obviously a key issue here the RX 470 reference card design for example was another abomination and Vega 64 air-cooled looks to be one of the worst results yet we should probably just start calling them aim D throttle card designs now with automatic underclocking to save your ears well I don't you guys enjoyed that I certainly had a lot of fun putting it together of course please let me know your thoughts on the pics and let me know what your picks look like as always love to hear your input also if you happen to have a computer with an older GPU maybe something Kepler based and you want to upgrade then check out my new upgrade my PC deeply series there's a heap of fun and there's always loads of cool prizes to be won so make sure you check it out I'm your host Steve see you again 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