GTX 150 in GTA V All Settings

Intro

Welcome back to another article, in this one I’m going to be testing the Geforce GTX 150 in GTA V. It doesn't exist like the GTX 150 doesn't exist but this is, in fact, a GTX 150. Its specs G92 65 nanometers the clock speeds and everything and as you can see Geforce GTX 150 OEM and it says right here G 92 and 65 nanometers and the clock speeds are the same. 

This is the 250, by the way, G92b it's not g92b 55 nanometer it's not 55 nanometer and the clock speeds are different so there's that. I am running it with the Ryzen 9 5900x and 32 gigabytes of RAM to get the most out of this GPU but you will get the same FPS if you pair it with something like an i3 3rd Gen or 4th Gen and 12 or 16 gigabytes of RAM.

1080p

So let's get right into it, shall we? and as always let's go over the settings first I’m playing this one at 1080p resolution as you can see we're using the DirectX 10 API because this GPU doesn't support the DirectX 11, everything is set to the lowest settings or normal settings which are the lowest in this game. Advanced settings are all turned off, as well. Here we go things are looking kind of promising not very much, but it could be worse right this is a 2009 GPU, and GTA 5 was released on PC in 2015.

 

So, the fact that we can play this at 1080p it's nothing short of amazing guys in my opinion, so, yeah although it's not 30 plus FPS all of the time, I think for a lot of people this is still playable. This is a good one, let's go use blinkers please, no one knows how to drive in this game see that who stops there. The game is stuttering a little bit that's because we only have one Gigabyte of VRAM, and it's completely maxed out here at 1080p resolution.

 It's still playable for a lot of people even with the stuttering issues, and to be honest to achieve 30 something FPS on average in this game you only need like a Second Gen i3. Third Gen or Fourth Gen i3 is not even needed if you plan on playing this game at 1080p with the GTX 150. All I got to say is it's faster than the GT 710, that's amazing, that's a very good achievement, of course, GT 710 was not the gaming GPU and this is still faster than GT 710. 

I don't care what you say it came out five years earlier than the GT 710 and it plays GTA 5 better but let's keep on moving and stop uh talking about GT 710 being bad because some people get offended by it for some reason, it's just a GPU. I don't know why, anyway, the FPS drops are huge here.

900p

Now we should probably test it out at the 900p resolution, we got a 33 FPS average there that's pretty good for GPU this old. So, now 1600 by 900 everything is still the same I think if you have a GPU like this you should play GTA 5 at the low settings because well VRAM is a problem in this game especially, at higher resolutions. Let's go, it still drops into the 20s by the way, as you saw there but it's no problem and I’m not testing online although a lot of people want me to test online because it's just as GPU intensive as a single player that mode will be more CPU intensive. 

We're going to see the same FPS as a single-player because I have a 5900X and it depends on your CPU, not your GPU again, if you have a CPU that is strong enough to not bottleneck this card or any card, in online gameplay you're going to see the same FPS as single-player and this card was just unlocked here for me, that's beautiful. Oh, 25 there inside of the bush, I mean it's still playable, I would call this a playable experience. 

GTX 150 in GTA V All Settings

Anyway, it drops into the lower or mid-20s, not lower-20s, and it's averaging around 40 FPS which is very impressive. It is 900p resolution, and it is already performing like a GT 710 at 720p I think or probably even better, actually. I think I've seen a single stutter or a couple of them here at 900p, but nothing major, it is really good, still, you can usually find them for around 15 10 bucks. 

I think I bought mine for 10 Euros or 15 Euros, I am not sure, I don't remember anymore, but, it was pretty cheap, and it plays GTA 5. 

So, it goes, it just goes to show you that you don't need the latest and greatest to have fun with your PC.

720p

We are playing at 720p resolution now and do keep in mind that this GPU although it performs all right in GTA 5, and it's also really cheap, will come at the cost of electricity because well it's not the best efficiency GPU out there. It's very old at this point 12 years old so you can't expect good power efficiency coming from it, I think it consumes around 140 and 150 watts which are not huge, but yeah for the performance, of course, even a GT 1030 is better and it consumes 30 watts, and that's a 4-year-old GPU.

 

It's pretty good at 720p, One Gigabyte is enough at this resolution and again compared to the GT 710, I am sorry 710 fans I don't know why that GPU has fans well mine kind of doesn't. It's a silent version anyway I forgot what I was talking about the GT 710 that is pretty bad, GT 710 got around 35 40 FPS average at 720p resolution and this one is getting 53 that's a considerable difference right there, a huge one at least. 

GTX 150 in GTA V All Settings

The DDR3 version of the GT 710, by the way, I saw that it stuttered there, so, it's still not perfect. The frame timer still, has some spikes right there, but it's no problem once again if you pair this GPU with 12 gigabytes of RAM, and that i3 4170, for example, 4th gen you'll get the same FPS as we're seeing right now. It's going to run smoothly, if you go into multiplayer though or online things are going to become pretty bad, of course, but well that's to be expected. Here we go, the 40s dropping into the 40s, somebody told me that during sunset this area is more intensive because of the shadows.

600p

 

Now at 800 by 600 let's just do that for fun, if you want to achieve like 60 FPS, 800 by 600 lowest resolution in this game aside from the frame scaling things you can achieve that experience at 600p, and yeah it's pretty good it is getting 60 plus. 

We are getting 60 plus FPS here, to achieve these FPS you will need something beefier than the i3 4170, I think the i3 got like 60 plus FPS average with the 750ti, FPS all of the time not average, so that CPU coupled with this graphics card will, of course, deliver these FPS, and any CPU that is faster than that i3 will also provide the same experience right here just like the 5900X.  

I think that has been it for this GPU, and thank you very much for reading this article hope you guys enjoyed it. I'll catch you in the next one very soon as always, love you all bye.

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