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Say what you will about the 560 against the 1050 cards,................(yes, I understand that this is not a review)
One fact about this latest generation of NVIDIA cards is that they're gimped and AMD is not.
It's the 800-pound Gorilla in the room.
What do I mean? (All of NVIDIA'a lower cost cards don't do SLI and all of AMD's do Crossfire)
Now, I understand that Crossfire/SLI doesn't mean a damn thing to many enthusiasts out there, but it ~does~ to a lot of us. Sometimes the scaling is good, other times it isn't. When it's working right, I like it. I like it with my 1070s, my 980Ti cards, my RX480s, and my RX580s too. My four R9-290Xs do it right as well.
With the price of high-end GPUs soaring to new heights, many of us prefer to buy ~two~ lower-cost cards over a few months time and get the power of two GPUs working for us.
While one more powerful card may work better in games, that's harder to afford for some of us.
So to me, it doesn't matter that 1050 is faster than 560. It means squat because it doesn't beat a pair of 560s. (and that's the endgame for many of us)
NVIDIA Gimping SLI on some of their cards was completely stupid to do. This is foremost in my mind when I read these comparisons.
NVIDIA wins the "screw the little guy" award this time.
One fact about this latest generation of NVIDIA cards is that they're gimped and AMD is not.
It's the 800-pound Gorilla in the room.
What do I mean? (All of NVIDIA'a lower cost cards don't do SLI and all of AMD's do Crossfire)
Now, I understand that Crossfire/SLI doesn't mean a damn thing to many enthusiasts out there, but it ~does~ to a lot of us. Sometimes the scaling is good, other times it isn't. When it's working right, I like it. I like it with my 1070s, my 980Ti cards, my RX480s, and my RX580s too. My four R9-290Xs do it right as well.
With the price of high-end GPUs soaring to new heights, many of us prefer to buy ~two~ lower-cost cards over a few months time and get the power of two GPUs working for us.
While one more powerful card may work better in games, that's harder to afford for some of us.
So to me, it doesn't matter that 1050 is faster than 560. It means squat because it doesn't beat a pair of 560s. (and that's the endgame for many of us)
NVIDIA Gimping SLI on some of their cards was completely stupid to do. This is foremost in my mind when I read these comparisons.
NVIDIA wins the "screw the little guy" award this time.