Minecraft - 1050ti or 970?

[McVoxy]

I have offered to have a look at a friends PC, which he uses for Minecraft, as he has been having issues with it.
He asked me was if he needed to upgrade anything, now the PC is AMD Athlon X4 870k based and not exactly new, but as its for Minecraft, it will do.
It has a GTX 1050 Ti currently installed, but I have an old GTX 970 in my old parts bucket. So my question is, which it better? (1080p max res, and I won't be charging anything for the 970 if it's better)

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

According to Tech powerup, the 970 is better. The 1050ti has 68% of the performance of a 970.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Specs

NVIDIA GM204, 1178 MHz, 1664 Cores, 104 TMUs, 56 ROPs, 4096 MB GDDR5, 1753 MHz, 256 bit

www.techpowerup.com

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Specs

NVIDIA GP107, 1392 MHz, 768 Cores, 48 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 4096 MB GDDR5, 1752 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

 

[McVoxy]

According to Tech powerup, the 970 is better. The 1050ti has 68% of the performance of a 970.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Specs

NVIDIA GM204, 1178 MHz, 1664 Cores, 104 TMUs, 56 ROPs, 4096 MB GDDR5, 1753 MHz, 256 bit

www.techpowerup.com

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Specs

NVIDIA GP107, 1392 MHz, 768 Cores, 48 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 4096 MB GDDR5, 1752 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

Cheers for that, my gut instinct was that the 970 would be more powerful. I have never played Minecraft, but as far as I am aware it's not exactly power hungry. But a better card is always better!

 

[gjbf1]

GTX 970. I don't have or play Minecraft but mine's a good card, been very happy, and it should easily beat a 1050.

 

[D1craig]

A group of freinds I played new world with played Minecraft once new worlds new expansion started to get dry and it seemed to be very hungry power wise. They did have some mods though.

I think that cpu could be the problem.

After a quickly ok around some people seem to think minecraft maybe more cpu heavy than gpu heavy.

 

[varkanoid]

Yeah I think it has always been more CPU intensive. Kids and cousins used to play it with onboard GPU. I think its also dependant on which one Java or the Windows one.

 

[Orcvader]

Which version of Minecraft? Bedrock generally runs better but is not compatible with many mods. With Java, he can use Fabric + Sodium to dramatically improve the framerate (and with other mods such as Lithium, Starlight, etc it can be improved further).

 

[Gammawolf]

Minecraft is mostly CPU. I got more than double frame rates on a heavily modded java instance going from a i7 2600k to a ryzen 7600X with the same RX580. For reference the RX580 i have is only 50% utlised as well while running the game. CPUs with the best single thread performance perform the best. My laptop (i5-1135G7 with integrated graphics performed better than my i7 2600k (oc'ed to 4.4ghz) and RX580). This was on "Dimension Hopper: The Fall" which is a pack with 400+ mods and 300+ dimensions