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We first measure power while the card is sat idling at the Windows 10 desktop for 5 minutes. Gaming power draw is recorded by running Unigine Heaven DX11 benchmark for 5 minutes. As a maximum stress test, Furmark is run for 5 minutes and the cards' power draw levels are recorded.
A separate system is used to test power draw in order to further put the onus on the energy being used by the graphics card. A relatively power-efficient Core i5-6400 CPU is paired with a single SSD and 750W Platinum-rated EVGA P2 PSU.
Power consumption is where the GTX 1050 Ti really starts to shine. Idling at the joint-lowest values seen by our test system, MSI's GTX 1050 Ti Gaming X graphics card barely breaks 100W of system-wide power draw under gaming load. The use of a 6-pin PCIe power connector allows MSI's card to draw an extra few Watts over ASUS' 75W board. This is the reason behind the MSI card's better gaming performance.
Looking at the AMD competition, RX 460 4GB requires 12% more power (for gaming) than MSI's card, yet turns in consistently lower frame rates. The performance premium for Sapphire's RX 470 4GB comes at the cost of almost double the power consumption. The very similar performance offered by GTX 960 dictates 40% higher power draw.
With that said, a 49W power draw increase does take you to GTX 1060 6GB performance. So the GTX 1050 Ti isn't necessarily the best power-vs-performance card on the market.
The power efficiency of Nvidia's Pascal architecture is simply superb.
One for the NV Fanboys, Smart buyers will go for RX470
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Not necessarily. It depends on how much you want to spend on a GPU. I just bought one of these today after reading this review, among many others. I picked it up for AU$229 while the cheapest RX470 I can find is AU$279 (HIS brand) or AU$308 for a similar MSI version (MSI Radeon RX470 Gaming X). Yeah “it’s only $50 difference” (or $79 for the MSI) but I didn’t want to spend the extra money on my spare computer (wife will use it mainly). (Side note: My PC has a GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming Waterforce so I can appreciate more powerful cards, but it’s overkill for my spare).
For the same price point I’d have to get a Sapphire Radeon RX460 Nitro 4GB, and it simply isn’t as good as the MSI GTX 1050 Ti Gaming X card.
At least Nvidia gpus manage to keep a steady high fps without random fps drops in the finished game, and not just in the alpha version like certain other gpus.
I got one of these last saterday as a bday present.I personally have to say price to performance this are most prob the best card here.I opted for the 1060 3gb but then i had to upgrade psu etc.I am not much of a gamer(mostly emulator games as i am old school gamer)I love to push the limit of the card.
The oc capability are mind boggling.Started today.Got it to 150 mhz on the gpu and 200 mhz on the memory.Stock voltage.Pretty sure will get around 350 on the memory on stock(if i am lucky)After reading some reviews it performs pretty well.Problem for me are i am still running an amd FX 4170 k.Will be getting the nxt gen ryzen cpu as not wasting time again on first gen cpu’s.Just personally i am truly impressed.Not a big msi fan but from back in 2004 or something they had some of the best oc cards out there(my old 9600 pro could do around a 25%+ oc back then :D)