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I'd actually take a 5% performance hit when buying a GPU if it helps to balance out the market. I'd gain in the long term when they're more competitive.
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I'd actually take a 5% performance hit when buying a GPU if it helps to balance out the market. I'd gain in the long term when they're more competitive.
if you want a low power card at 1080p, a 1030 is perfect, really low power usage, and if you don't smash it with AA it'll play whatever you throw at it at playable framerates, for £80 it's brill
Wow when did that go up in price?
I brought my 1030 a while back for low power display output on my ESXi rig, and it was sub £50. Plus this was when they actually came with proper video memory as well.
But what PSU doesn't have a 6 pin connector now? If it's for gaming people want the fastest card they can get for the money which is a 580. If it's not for gaming or low end stuff you can just use the Intel/AMD APU.
but its not better value than a used 1050 ti, and likely if you're saving money by upgrading an old system without additional PCI power you'd be happy to buy a 2nd hand GPUIt's still the best GPU on the market to upgrade a PC that doesn't have a 6 pin adapter. It's also more convenient than buying a new PSU and a 570 and fannying about with the PSU connectors.
Is it a good card if you have a 6 pin? No. But you have to look at what it's market and purpose actually is. For it's power draw it's the best on the market.
It's still the best GPU on the market to upgrade a PC that doesn't have a 6 pin adapter. It's also more convenient than buying a new PSU and a 570 and fannying about with the PSU connectors.
Is it a good card if you have a 6 pin? No. But you have to look at what it's market and purpose actually is. For it's power draw it's the best on the market.
LMAO at enthusiasts going about PSUs when they probably overspec them most of the time. I have a mini-ITX system and have run an RX470 with the highest stock clocks and a GTX1080 and power consumption at the wall is well under 300W. I use a pint sized 450W PSU.
I assume the level of excitement some of you have for the GTX1650,will make you instant Navi fans with the rumoured bus powered one with RX580 level performance. Meh.
The TU117 will be far more interesting in laptops.
Yeah, Costs more than the RX 570 and is significantly slower, several games over 20% slower, one or two over 30% slower.
But its good because if you don't have a 6 pin PICe connector on your PSU then the GTX 1650 is than card for you
Some people are perpetual apologists for nVidia, still now when there not buying their higher end cards because nVidia have priced them out of reach, madness.
Another consideration is many of the systems which might ship with PSUs without PCI-E power connectors,tend to be low profile form factors using FlexATX or TFX PSUs,and AFAIK I have not seen any low profile GTX1650 cards released yet(it took some time for low profile GTX1050TI cards to appear over here and they were not cheap). At least those might have a use,but again dependent on how big the PSU is also and how good the case will be at venting another 60W~70W of heat.
Some of the designs at launch look like someone putting go faster stripes and a giant rear wing on a Austin Metro 1 litre.
Edit!!
OTH,I would like to see how the GT1030 replacement looks like. If that can stay at the same 30W TDP might be actually a good fit for a media system if it has an improved video decode capability.