Late closing 12 months I got down to crown the excellent entry-class graphics card with the aid of comparing the Radeon RX 460, GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti in 24 video games, which concluded in a victory for Nvidia as its GTX 1050 handily dispatched the RX 460, offering approximately 18% greater overall performance.

After this sort of decisive win, why could we hassle hosting a rematch?

Since then, AMD has improved its drivers dramatically for the RX 460 further to sponsoring numerous popular triple-A titles and launching the updated, absolutely enabled RX 560 for the identical $100 as its predecessor.

As you can realize, the Radeon RX 460 became no longer the full Polaris eleven silicon, with simply 896 cores enabled. This was discovered when some sneaky enthusiasts observed a manner to unencumber all 1024 cores the usage of a modified BIOS.

You might be questioning why AMD might manufacture a 123mm2 GPU which include 3 billion transistors simplest to not enable all the cores? The primary purpose is probable all the way down to yields. AMD probably wasn't seeing the success fee they could have liked first of all, and so mass production RX 460s with 1024 cores enabled turned into now not fee powerful.

GPUs with a sure amount of defective cores are usually binned as lower-end parts. The failed cores are disabled and it receives sold as a component with a lower middle count number. Now that the 14nm technique has matured, AMD is unavoidably seeing a better success fee and consequently generating absolutely enabled Polaris 11 elements is now feasible.

Enter the Radeon RX 560, AMD's last ditch attempt to reclaim the access-level marketplace phase for this technology. Compared to the previous generation, the RX 560 packs 14% more cores and they're clocked 6% better for good degree. But the GTX 1050 changed into 18% faster than its predecessor which is no small margin, so it'll be thrilling to look what this means for the RX 560.

To discover, I've tested both GPUs the use of 30 games, all of which have been tweaked using appropriate presets ranging from low to excessive relying on the identify. All testing become carried out at 1080p the use of a Ryzen five 1400 test device. The CPU wasn't overclocked and turned into best pared with 8GB of DDR4-2666 -- a realistic hardware configuration for this GPU fee range, however with out the hazard of heavily bottlenecking the GPUs.

One issue really worth noting is that I could best get my hands on a 4GB version of the RX 560 as shopping for an AMD images card is hard proper now with the today's mining increase. The buffer should not have an effect on overall performance besides. The only sport in which this could give the RX 560 a bonus over the 2GB GTX 1050 is Doom, which is uncommon with its reminiscence utilization.

Please do observe, I strongly suggest buyers to keep away from 4GB RX 560s due to the fact the GPU virtually is not effective sufficient to well utilize that tons reminiscence. This makes the charge top class for 4GB versions impossible to justify in my opinion, so please opt for a 2GB RX 560, which need to cost $a hundred or less. On to the benchmarks...

Test System Specs & Memory

  • AMD Ryzen five 1400
  • Asrock X370 Taichi
  • 16GB DDR4-3200 RAM
  • Samsung SSD 850 Evo 2TB
  • Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti 4GB
  • Gigabyte GTX 1050 2GB
  • Gigabyte RX 560 4GB
  • Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
  • GeForce Game Ready Driver 382.fifty three
  • Crimson ReLive Edition 17.6.2

Kick starting our checking out is World of Tanks, that's the use of the up to date HD consumer. This game isn't always highly disturbing regardless of looking quite respectable for what it is. Here, the GTX 1050 is quite a bit quicker than the RX 560, turning in 26% greater overall performance, but the RX 560 did push over 60fps for the most component, so performance at 1080p become quite proper. Still, the GTX 1050 is honestly the higher option and could allow for smooth gameplay even at 1440p.

Next up we've Grand Theft Auto V and this recreation offers lots greater competitive consequences. Here the GTX 1050 become simply 4% faster than the RX 560 while the 1050 Ti became best five% faster than the vanilla 1050. All great alternatives have been set to normal, MSAA became disabled and all the superior snap shots options have been capable disabled. This allowed for playable overall performance at 1080p for these GPUs.

The Witcher 3 is the closing pre-2016 title that I even have tested with and all over again we find any other antique launch that favors the green team. This time the GTX 1050 was 10% quicker than the RX 560, although it must be stated with HairWorks disabled and most effective the medium quality settings enabled at 1080p, overall performance wasn't overly astounding with both GPU.

Rise of the Tomb Raider offers the RX 560 with its first win -- kind of. The minimum frame charge changed into slightly better for the Radeon photos card at the same time as both churned out 47fps on average and the GTX 1050 Ti supplied an additional 17% performance hitting 55fps.

Ashes of the Singularity has been blanketed and as you would possibly assume, the RX 560 is capable of close in on the GTX 1050 for this one. That said, performance changed into an awful lot the identical the use of both GPU, so we've got a tie right here.

Testing with Dirt 4 suggests that the RX 560 is able to roughly match the GTX 1050.