Plucked this:In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 are significantly better than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050.
The GeForce GTX 1060 has a 152 MHz higher core clock speed and 40 more Texture Mapping Units than the GeForce GTX 1050. This results in the GeForce GTX 1060 providing 66.3 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.
The GeForce GTX 1060 has a 152 MHz higher core clock speed and 16 more Render Output Units than the GeForce GTX 1050. This results in the GeForce GTX 1060 providing 29 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.
The GeForce GTX 1050 was released less than a year after the GeForce GTX 1060, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.
Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.
The GeForce GTX 1060 has 4096 MB more video memory than the GeForce GTX 1050, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, the overall memory performance is about the same.
The GeForce GTX 1050 has 32.1 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GeForce GTX 1060, which means that the memory performance of the GeForce GTX 1050 is noticeably better than the GeForce GTX 1060.
The GeForce GTX 1050 has 640 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 1060 has 1280. However, the actual shader performance of the GeForce GTX 1050 is 1257 and the actual shader performance of the GeForce GTX 1060 is 2953. The GeForce GTX 1060 having 1696 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the GeForce GTX 1060 delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the GeForce GTX 1050.
The GeForce GTX 1050 transistor size technology is 2 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GeForce GTX 1060. This means that the GeForce GTX 1050 is expected to run very slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GeForce GTX 1060.
The GeForce GTX 1050 requires 75 Watts to run and the GeForce GTX 1060 requires 120 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 300 Watts for the GeForce GTX 1050 and a PSU with at least 400 Watts for the GeForce GTX 1060. The GeForce GTX 1060 requires 45 Watts more than the GeForce GTX 1050 to run. The difference is significant enough that the GeForce GTX 1060 may have a slight adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the GeForce GTX 1050.
System Suggestions
The GeForce GTX 1050 is best suited for resolutions up to and including 1920x1080, so our recommendation would be to use 1600x900 in order to get the most out of your settings. We recommend a high-end processor such as the i5-6500 and 8GB of RAM for optimal performance.
GeForce GTX 1060 is best suited for resolutions up to and including 2560x1440. We recommend a High-End Processor and 8GB of RAM for Optimal Performance.
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Depends on how much punishment the wallet can take!
If you have visions of a triple screen I would go the 1060 route.
If you don't want to eat into your beer money - the 1050!