and as those cryptocurrency prices go up
so unfortunately does the scarcity
of graphics cards but there is a little
bit of a solution here and we've been
talking about this
earlier this month when I did a video on
the best cards to look out for
if you don't want to get ripped off as a gamer
and that was in particular the four
gigabyte models the rx 570
and also this one here the gtx 1050 ti
now
there's also the gtx 970 but does that
really
make for a true four gigabyte card
that is the question i mean that's
almost seven years that joke that's a
pretty long running joke
anyhow let's see the performance of
these two graphics cards right here and
the main reason i'm going to be focusing
on these two cards in particular is i
feel like in the next coming months
there may be quite a healthy supply of
these
out on the used market and the good news
here is is that as these four gigabyte
cards
become less useful to cryptocurrency
miners then they're gonna get dumped on
the market
and with that excess supply should mean
better prices
however as it stands these cards right
now they are a little bit overpriced
especially
in the united states where i was looking
on ebay
and there's people selling and buy it
now for as high as 200
and i was thinking to myself well that
is a bit too much for a 1050 ti
but rx 570s for example and even 470s
you can still get them on aliexpress
but they're pretty much coming in close
to their new prices that they were
released for
years ago though let's get the results
out of the way
then we'll talk more about the market
situation and what you can do
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links in description below so running
through the benchmarks for you guys i'll
also include
the gtx 1063 gigabyte now the three
gigabyte model
that actually came on the market in
excess supply
over a year ago and i actually was
wondering at the time
why these cars were being sold in plenty
but then i realized that
ethereum pretty much with a dag file
size had forced the gtx 1063 gigabytes
to come onto the market now you will be
able to find 1063 gigabytes and do keep
your eye out for any card
that essentially is a good deal and
you'll know if it's a good deal
because you'll see all the other prices
up for sale of these cards
and then you'll see it maybe locally
going 50 cheaper and if you can pick
that up
for that price then definitely snag it
up but do make sure it works
and one thing i will stress is before we
get into these results
do not fall for these crappy scams on
ebay
these cards are not gtx 1050 ti's for
example i'm looking on
ebay for prices and i'm seeing these
knock-off cards
that i think they're like 560 tis and
the way you can tell is that a temporary
ti never had a vga connector
built onto the card and the seller is
not showing the inputs and outputs
but you can see it in one of the photos
when you're looking at the bottom
of the card you can see that vga
connected there so basically if you buy
one of these cards and looks like three
people on this one listing already have
you've essentially wasted your money
well you may be able to get your money
back through ebay but the problem is
is you're just wasting all this time and
you have to return the item
etc etc and it's just really going to be
complete
headache for you though speaking of not
so much a headache let's pull up the
first title here
f1 2020 this game here saw that the rx
570
does pull ahead of the 1050 ti and also
the 1063 gigabyte
quite comfortably and this is 1080p low
settings because i want to see
what you can get out of these cards if
you just want to get into gaming
and you just want to play some titles at
1080p in 2021
even though f1 i better probably release
f1 2021
soon and probably just been pretty much
a copy pasta a
job of f1 2020 just like 2019 was
but this game here runs fine on all
three cards with the rx 570 and the gtx
1063 gig you can up the settings a
little bit get a bit of a better visual
experience but for what it's worth one
percent and point one set loads were
also pretty smooth
when i tested those across the three
different cards now moving on to doom
eternal
this game right here we decided to go
1080p low settings again
and all three cards here were performing
very nicely though we're giving out a
smooth experience
i can play these games at 1080p and get
a smooth experience
running through with pretty much no
stuttering whatsoever
though on to the next one here cs go if
you're into cs go and you
think the updates caused a little bit
more strain on your computer
and say you've got an old gtx 650 ti or
something
then uh these cards right here the tempe
ti and also the rx570 they do very well
they give very high fps at 1080p
and the next game we're pulling up here
is fortnite where the recent update
has seen this mandalorian character come
in
and of course with fortnite different
updates do different things to the game
i'm still having problems with the
performance mode they do say it's in
alpha but at dx12 competitive settings
at 1080p
all three of these cards did extremely
well now i am throwing in the 3060 ti
in these gaming graphs for you guys
because it's the
cheapest newest generation card believe
it or not
that's out on the market right now so
out of the rtx 3000 series and the rx
6000 series
the 3060 ti is the least expensive for
the time being
nvidia have announced their rtx 3060 but
as it stands if you want to get a new
graphics card
that's like newer season than the 360 ti
is it and yes it will give a big boost
over all these three other cards here
though as for the 30 60 ti we'll talk
about that very soon about the problem
that is facing
and it's much worse than these other
three cards here in the comparison
after we get through god4 where we've
got here with the rx570 low settings
1080p
getting around 68 fps absolutely fine
really smooth experience
the temporary ti was struggling big time
here and the 1063 gigabyte
did um in the in-game benchmark was
doing a bit worse
than the rx-570 but one thing i did
notice here was when
i compare the in-game benchmark to just
the spot that i was testing on
when i did the initial uh review of my
cards last year
people like why was godfall getting
better fps on an rtx 3080 than an rx
6800 that's because i just
test a particular point in the map and
what i found when i was testing this
point in the map
was that the temporary ti was getting a
lot better fps
and the rx 570 was then only beating it
by
around 50 as opposed to it getting
literally like double the fps in the
in-game benchmark so
that's in itself besides the topic of
this video
that's why a lot of reviewers do when
they see results
like this that differ greatly from the
norm they then decide to run their
own benchmarks at certain parts of the
map and this in-game benchmark
unfortunately is giving us
some really bizarre results so i'd say
if anything i'd stick to the actual
testing in the game itself versus
testing on the in-game benchmark
anyhow with all that aside the
conclusion is with these two cards right
here
i'm going to say if you've got a decent
power supply and you want something
that's going to work
pretty well especially for the money the
rx 570 and also the rx 470
are going to be good cards to get you by
if you want to play games with your
friends especially all the competitive
titles like fortnite
and rainbow six siege and dota 2 all
these games that a lot of people play
rx 470 570 and also 1050 ti's are going
to do extremely well
in just giving you guys a playable
experience in these games
and so that'll definitely tide you over
until
or hopefully the sooner the better this
whole
crypto mining affecting gpu prices blows
through the market
but as it stands it's still right up
there at this point in time so
we'll be covering it at tech yes city it
is a big part of course
when you're building pcs and one
component is just exorbitantly priced
versus a lot of others that's when you
get a report on it and give you guys the
best
option going forward and i feel like
these cards right here even though
the prices of them are a lot more than
they're traditionally been in the past
i feel like the premium you're paying
for these cards is not going to be
anywhere near that
of say a 30-60 ti where i'm seeing them
go in the united states for example
for as high as 800 us dollars for a 360
ti they're meant to be around 400 us
and they're going for pretty much double
but also when we look at that price
point we're seeing 399
versus 800 where there's a 400 absolute
difference for example
the rx 470 and also the rx 570 before
this whole
crypto rush came in in 2020 these were
going for around street price you could
pick it up for around 90 to 100 usd now
getting them for 150 yes you're paying a
lot
more and you're paying 50 more so the
percentage increase
isn't as big as the 360 ti and the newer
cards but the main thing is the absolute
difference for example
is only fifty dollars more and i do say
only because
when we contrast it to those other cards
and how much more they cost
the only fifty dollars doesn't seem so
bad now with these two cards right here
i picked these up
locally for a hundred aussie each so i
got lucky the 1050 ti
picked it up for 100 aussie then this rx
570
picked this up for a hundred dollars too
so in usd terms it's around 78 us
dollars so
locally if you can pick up deals and you
can check out the cards and make sure
they work before you get them
you're always going to get a better deal
than you will online and that's
something
that i do really encourage here at tech
yeah city
if you can find a good deal then
definitely snap it up but the best thing
is about these two cards in particular
going forward is that you could see a
lot more of them
getting dumped on the market and once
they do get dumped on the market
that could mean cheaper gaming at least
on the entry level point
where i feel like it is the one of the
most important things to get that entry
level price point right
because it's what a lot of people can
afford and that's all their budget send
them to so
if i can take care of you guys on this
price point then i definitely will
another thing about the rx-570s too is
do check out the condition of them
if they've been heavily used for three
or four years straight in the case of
the rx-470
then do check that out and make sure
that you're not buying a card that's on
its last legs i have seen some rx-470s
for instance that have suffered greatly
from degradation and especially on their
gddr5 memory
on the cards themselves to the point
where they didn't work properly anymore
and now pretty much useless i had to bin
some of those cards
and the funny thing is this event was
over a year ago they're the last thing
to address i know there's going to be
people in the comments that are like
what about the gtx 970
984 gigabyte and also the r9 294
gigabyte and other cards that are a
little bit older
with that four gigabytes of vram and the
thing is about those cards is i'm
actually
going to start cycling out parts that
are older than five years
and the reason being is because in the
last six months i have seen a lot of
parts
not just second hand anymore a lot of
parts that are literally like third or
even fourth hand
in that they've changed hands that many
times and they're just going out in like
a month or two months
so i get them in and then i've got to
warranty the pcs and i've had a lot of
problems
in the last few months i could make a
detailed video about it but going into
2021
i am going to be changing up my metas
and things that i'm looking for
on the used market and it's just with
experience and things that i'm seeing
personally
and hopefully you guys will enjoy that
video when it comes out
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comment in the comment section below
and speaking of questions we have here
the question of the day which comes from
fernando
procoso and they ask in the monitor
reviews
so one millisecond is a fake
and they're talking about the response
times that a lot of manufacturers print
on the box
and in this case it was with an ips
panel we did a review on i'll put the
link up here
and yes these response times are just
not real world
and in ways i feel like they're not fake
either
like true fake where what they've done
is they've got
one particular shade of pixel and it's
usually gray
and then they've measured only that
response time from that greater grey
pixel on the monitor
and because it's easier for that monitor
and that color shade
to transition faster then that's when
they go yep
we're going to go with that response
time and print it on the box as opposed
to in games
we all know there's so many different
colors in games and getting the whole
image to transition
from the previous color that it was on
to the new color
or just going from a different color
other than that gray that they've picked
you could be seeing on average response
times
that are around three four five
milliseconds and so
that's why when i do my test for
response times i always test just a real
world
transition whether it's usually in cs go
because i find
that it's really hard for monitors to
get that right in terms of fast
transitions
but to answer that question directly
it's not fake but it is
i feel heavily misleading hope that
answers that question
and i'll catch you guys in another tech
video very soon
peace out for now bye
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