Gadgetory

so were you shopping for new graphics card around the 250 to $300 range you can get a lot for your money right around there there's a fierce competition taking place between the gtx 1066 gig versus the RX 488 gig what happens when you throw another card in the mix meet the geforce gtx 1060 again only this time it's got three gigabytes a little bit less cuda cores at eleven hundred and fifty-two verses twelve hundred and eighty of the bigger six gigabyte brother but it's got the same 1500 six megahertz base clock and a 17 hundred and eight megahertz boost clock the one we're looking at today is the gaming x variant from msi but as you would expect from my board partner this one's got a custom PCB and eight pin PCI Express power slot and it's got a little extra oomph under the hood at an 1835 booze clock so what happens when you put another graphics card inside the space it's already got fierce competition I don't know let's find out so if you found it kind of surprising that the three gigabyte card with over a hundred less CUDA cores and half the vram was actually performing just underneath its six gigabyte bigger brother then you wouldn't be alone and actually gave the R X 480 a run for its money beating it in all dx11 titles I have ashes a singularity back into the lineup because I tweeted that I was having some frustrations with it I've mentioned it in previous videos that I couldn't get it to work right and that's because I am a freaking idiot every single time two things were happening every single time I loaded a card in there it was resetting all of its settings back to recommended and so it was constantly changing things based on the card that was in there that's a good function to have if you're not trying to benchmark if you just want to put in the card in play that's a great thing but I had to go back and manually set everything and I was a noob and wasn't doing that something else I learned was whenever you launch the game from inside steam obviously it gives you an option to run DX eleven or twelve at startup I was selecting twelve obviously the problem was I also have a desktop shortcut that was loading dx11 and not giving me the option to switch and I didn't realize it so that's why I was getting some really sporadic results but anyway that's beside just thought I'd share that because I was like I'm an idiot I can't figure this out and it was making me mad but regardless the RX 480 and DX 12 is definitely showing a total disregard for Nvidia saying we can get just as good performance if not better because of the way we handle asynchronous compute so which card should you buy well I think you have to ask yourself one question it's not a very easy one to come up with answer to but that being are you going to play games that are going to be dx11 dominant or are you going to bank on the future of gaming taking advantages of things like Vulkan API and dx12 where the way AMD handles its asynchronous compute shows that there are some massive gains to be had as long as developers are coding for it that's the gamble guys and that's the one I can't answer for you but I will say I don't feel that this card belongs in this space the three gigabyte 1060 was shaped CUDA cores as far as I'm concerned this is the GTX 1050 one last thing you might have noticed was I didn't show pricing and that's because I never showed pricing in the beginning and then I started showing it and now I'm doing away with it again because pricing right now on these cards is stupid you can it is really stupid you could buy a $399 1060 right now because they're not available so pricing is inflated and the exact same thing is happening with the RX 480 I don't know if there's just that many more people buying graphics cards as time around or the manufacturers just aren't manufacturing enough of them but all of these cards are pretty much out of stock making pricing artificially inflated so because I could not find a solid baseline price I just decided I'm going to show the performance and you guys have to determine which card is gonna be best for you on pricing because I'm Tony right now as somebody who deals with this every day I'm frustrated with the pricing I cannot imagine what a first-time buyer or even a newer buyer is going through right now trying to find the right card based on pricing shame on the market shame on the artificial inflation and shame on people who are jacking up these prices trying to take advantage of the limited supply yes guys I know economics supply and demand but still so this is the part where you guys get involved sound off in the comments and let me know if you think this card makes sense or if they should have called it a 1050 I think they could have called it a 1050 made it cheaper and it would have been that much more impressive but instead it shares a name with its bigger brother that has less cuda cores and less memory which I think only causes confusion amongst people that don't think about researching the card and realizing they're actually buying something lesser that shares the same name anyway guys thanks for watching and I'll catch you in the next one