I decided it was time to upgrade one of my machines, Main and Test are both i7-4790k with 24GB of memory each, SATA SSDs for booting and large quantities of HDD space. Main has a GTX 1050 with 2MB bought second-hand during the Graphics card crisis after I bought a GTX 1050Ti with 4GB just as the market dried up and fitted to it to Test.
I have been feeling that the 1050 performance has declined compared with the 1050Ti on recent releases but both are s l o w!
At the weekend we were visiting my oldest son so I took the opportunity to test with my Grandson’s machine and my Son’s machine. Both are Ryzen systems but my Son’s system is used for Architectural model rendering and my Grandson’s for gaming but now replaced by a PS/5.
So here are some figures comparing GTX1050 2MB, GTX1050Ti 4MB, RTX2060, RTX2080 running the Egypt image and Nikon batch images and 10 images of my own (from a Lumix G9)
So do I buy my Grandson’s RTX2060 but would then have to supply a replacement graphics card or buy a new RTX2060 and sell the slower graphics card, disappoint my Grandson who “wants” the money but who might be too disappointed with the performance of the GTX1050. I feel that purchasing a new GTX2060 is probably the best course of action (and make a donation to his funds)!?
PS: Update when I wrote this I used both RTX2030 and RTX2060 when describing my Grandson’s graphics card and replaced 2060 with 2030 which was incorrect it should have been RTX 2060!
In the meantime I have ordered an RTX 3060 so I will be able to run that on my machine (if I can fit it successfully) and find out how much the faster Ryzen systems contributed to the times in the above Table!