AFOX GTX 1050 & 1050 Ti Budget Gaming Review

Gaming Performance

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Let’s try some 4K ultra gaming on these beasts! Nah, I’m just kidding, today we’ll be dropping all resolutions except 1080p. There’s no point bringing a knife to a gunfight here. I’m Tomb Raider, we scored a very respectable 34 and 39 FPS with High settings. That’s some pretty looking graphics for this price. Crap for PC enthusiasts but put it this way, both cards exceed the performance and visual fidelity of the console version of this game. Not so bad now, eh? Plus drop to medium settings and it’ll still look great, and perform much better too, easily north of 45-50 FPS on the Ti model.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

This game is more demanding than Tomb Raider but still ran very well for what these cards cost. Again with that “console beating” performance thing. You could either drop to medium settings or cut the resolution to 720p, helping you see frame rates that are more in the 60 FPS region.

Ghost Recon: Wildlands

I actually expected this game to drop way below 30 FPS on these cards, but both were very much playable. Obviously the Ti did better, but for 1080p and High graphics settings, 48.8 FPS is not too shabby at all.

Middle Earth: Shadow of War

It’s pretty much as you would expect here too. Both cards performed fairly similarly, but both got past 30 FPS easily enough too. Again, changing the games resolution scale or dropping the shadow/texture quality will have a dramatic improvement on your FPS. You shouldn’t have to change much to get the Ti to 60 FPS. I’d drop the non-Ti to 720p and keep the graphics on High though.

Battlefield V

Yet again, I’m honestly shocked and Battlefield V is better optimised for budget hardware than I realised. 45 FPS at these settings on a very basic gaming GPU is amazing. Of course, it wouldn’t hurt to drop to medium profile to boost performance, but you’re hardly going to suffer too much with these frame rates.