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The price usually vary on the performance as well,Actually it's depends on your demand more than anything.
If you think that you are capable and need a great graphic card to assist you 1060 is your choice.
If you think that you did better save money and you don't have a great demand of great graphic card I did say 1050 is your choice.
1050 is ok with many games but it will out date about 1-2 years,while 1060 may make it about2.5- 3 years at best I think.
I've been told that the 1060 is "VR Ready" and it is said to be good for 3D rendering? Is that true?
3D rendering ,I think CUDA core is much more than 1050 ,so yeah it's is better with in 3d.
1050 just have around 640 CUDA core while 1060 around 1152-1200 depends on the spec.
So yeah in practial it is better than 1050 almost about 2 times.
As I said if 1050 can lives about 1-2 years 1060 should live around 3 years.
If you are really interested and want VR ready 1060 is your choices ,I don't think 1050 is good enough for VR.
With your spec I did recommend 1060 but beware that 1060 is not a smart choice for high performance it's the lowest of high end spec.
The life time is quite short compare to 1070 or 1080.(I mean how long you can use it without to worry about the performance).
Right now I am using GTX 980 and I think I can lives for more 4-5 years for good,just 2-3 years passed since I bought it.
1060 is not much a good choice,if you are talking about the price,it's lowest of high end graphic card.
My friend used to own a GTX 960 but it does not lives long in the term of performance,most of the game just use it's as a standard for lowest spec or recommend spec but usually even the game game label 1060 as a recommend you are barely play with it.
Let's say that The witcher 3 he got almost around 30 FPS at best for it,usually it's around 22-23 FPS.
With that FPS it's barely playable for me.
At that time I was using GTX 650 and it just did not work at all.
So,I decided to but GTX 980 and it's really bedone with the performance for the rest of almost every game.
If I were you I did better buy 1070 or 1080 and bedone with it.
As you may have noticed 980 still better than 1060 quite a lot it's also almost on the same grade as 1070.
If you buy 1070 or 1080 you can use it for a very long time before it's outdate.(I think I am going to use it around 7-8 years.)
But if you buy 1060 just about 3 years it's almost outdate again.
I don't think I can save enough to get a 1070/1080. I think I'll have to settle with the 1050 / 1060
It depends on the quality of work as well,there are a lot of quality for animation,so I can not say which one is suit you.
If you think that it's too lag to work with,that's the sign of upgrading hardware.
I'm going for cartoony low-poly stuff anyways...
Like this ^^
https://twitter.com/atelierjordan/status/863638524574281728
Blender can do this easy, right?
Thanks a lot for the assist!
For games the 1060 6GB falls short up to 1080 / High, the development of the games they do is disappointing. I play Ultra 4K / 60 in most games (the most current ones do not) and for VR it's perfect.
The GTX 980 has more calculation power than the 1060 but it is better for games, in case of Blender the 1060 will go better.
In which case it is better for 3D design. Honestly, it depends on your designs. Until recently I used a GTX 660 and I had enough for everything, it happens that little by little I have been doing more details in the models and scenarios to the point where I exceeded the 2GB of VRAM of the graph, then I had to render by CPU and the CPU is slow to render compared to the GPU. That's why I bought a GTX 1060 6GB and at the moment I'm left with 2.3GB of memory, so I'm far from reaching 6GB. It is also 3 times faster than the 660 but of course, the fact of having this power makes me go by the bush when I make the 3D models so it is as if I used the 660. That's why I make the models from a mediocre notebook to have a limiter and not exceed.
My recomendation:
If you do not have money: 1050 Ti.
If you can spend a little money: 1060 6GB.
If you can spend money, the best option for blender is GTX 1070.
For low-poly any HW is enough, I would say a Raspberry pi is enough xD. For what you intend to do a 1060 or even a 1050 is too powerful. I make realistic renders with a 660 and now that I am with the 1060 I can raise that level even more, with low poly I think a GTX 1030 would be enough, but do not look at that, buy what you need 1050/1060/1070/1080 looking at face to the future what you will do or not with the graphic card.
https://mobile.twitter.com/atelierjordan/status/863638524574281728
Currently, the laptop I have is a GTX 940m, 8gb ram, i7
You think I can get Blender to work with it properly? I tried running Maya 2016 (student version) and it stutters. :/
You don't need a powerful machine to do low poly,Imagine man,Do you think that every staff in a large company are using GTX 980 at their offfice ?
Nope,really at best I think they just get around GTX 950-960 at best they can give you is GTX 970 but I don't think anybody would have that card.
If you lag in Maya ,that's probably their own fault,Like photoshop,I dropped it off many years and use GIMP instead,It's too lag to work with.