The numbers are the numbers. Arguing about images, phases of the moon, mindshare and other factors is fruitless. Yes,, when a project diminates, they benefit from mindshare ... but that just doesn't happen, you have to earn it. As "educated consumers", we should be beynd that. When you pick up the Wheaties box, the person on the cover is the one who won the gold medal. And when you pick a PC related magazine, the cover belongs to nVidia because the press, web based and print, likes to write about the exciting stuff because it sells more ads. The 1080 Ti took the Gold, the 1080 the silver, the 1070 the bronze, the 1060 just missed a medal, but it finished ahead of everything against it. The idea of tech mags and sites is to get articles read. What they prnt has to do with answrering the questions a) Will they send me a sample and b) who will read in. Only one of those is a judgement call. There is one 570 review here on TP ... there's 4 on the 1050 Ti,
The 570 was the better card but the choice between the 570 and 1050 Ti ***today*** is like arguing about what's better Betmax or VHS. Prices on the 1060 3 GB have dropped to a point where it makes no sense to consider either of them. It's one of those cards kike the 970 where the 960 and it's competion were just left in the dust such that the 970 sold more than all 20+ AMD 200 and 300 series cards combined. The TX 570 is $150 and no it doesn't make sense to spend an extra $20 for the Ti ($170). From a performance stabdpoint, it would make sense to buy the 570 is it was $20 more ... the problem for AMD is, it also makes sense to spend the extra $20 to get the 1060 3GB for $190 A $1000 build w/o a GFX card presents the following Performance / proce ratio:
1050 Ti Build = $1170 / 67.8 = $17.26
RX 570 = $1150 / 97.6 = $11.78
1060 3GB Build = $1195 /104.8 = $11.41
So while there is a huge jump in value per dollar getting the 570 over the Ti, what abandon your evalauation methods / logic and not the 1060 3 GB. None of these cards are adequate for 1440p and at 1080p, the 1060 has the best ROI. But there are other things to think about besides performance. Let's look at some other factors:
Criteria: 1060 / 570 / 1050 Ti
Fan Noise Idle: 0 / 0 / 0 dba
Fan Noise Load: 29 / 31 / 27 dba
Power: 130 / 180 / 75 watts
Temps @ OC: 67 / 74 / 66C
Anything there that might swing a decision ? How about the guy with PSU that doesn't have PCI-E cables and can't use a card that is over 75 watts ? It shouldn't be about hand picking two cards and using a limited scenario; this is what Purch Group does on their media sites to pick "best card under ... [$1 more than the price of the product they been paid to generate interest for]. If we look at the $150-$200 price range and pick the best GPU for 1080P, it's clearly the RX 580 8GB.