GTX 770 vs GTX 1050 Ti

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Finally got my grubby paws on a mates 1050Ti. Its A £165 Msi twin frozr and I couldn't help running a few tests against my recently bought £80 GTX 770 - again an MSI twin Frozr variant.

GTX 770

GTX 1050Ti

It's a beautifully built card but at the price of struggling to see the point. Twice the price of the 770, near identical performance and actually more expensive than something like the better performing RX 470. Its a shame, as the card would be an absolute stormer at a much lower price point.

 

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I got my gigabyte mini for £130 which I think is a good price for the performance it offers at such a low power draw.

The mini cards make so much more sense than the twin fan gaming variants that's for sure.

 

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Nicely produced video but I might have missed it but surely the 770 was brought second hand which is often a can of worms. So warranty on a new 1050ti is a big factor to many buyers.

And you brushed over the fact you had to lower texture quality in GTA V to stop it saturating the 770. This is one of those things that will just get worse moving forward.

Texture quality is one of those settings that have a big impact on image quality but little on performance just by having a card with more vram.

Having had an OC 680 a few years back that I felt needed upgrading because I was running out of vram too often in newly released games I couldn't recommend a 2gb card going forward if your hoping to play newly released games.

Can't argue with your conclusion on value for money, especially on the games you played that are a bit older as like you say when they came out the 770 would have been a mid-high end card.

Thanks for the input

Yeah, I probably should have pointed out a bit more about the VRAM limit being a bit of a hindrance going forward.

To be perfectly honest, I really like the GTX 1050Ti and as has been mentioned by other folks the performance to power ratio is very good. It's just a shame about the price - especially the higher end skus which are on par with the more powerful Rx470

Perhaps it's a tad unrealistic that someone in the market for a £80 gpu would even be considering a £165 one though but it's always nice to see there are other options out there for those with not a whole lot of money to spend.