AMD's popular "Vega" Radeon graphics card are still a far away. They are going to launch next year. But the gamers are having gift this year with Nvidia's killer GTX 10-series lineup with the release of new graphics cards: The GeForce GTX 1050 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.
Both the graphics cards are aimed toward giving a prebuilt "big box" PCs enough oomph to game. The cards will come with a mere 75-watt power with that not extra power connectors will be needed.
The high-end cards are very budget-friendly. Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be costing $139 when it launches on October 25. The GTX 1050 will cost just for $109 at its November 8 release, reports PCWorld.
The 2GB GTX 1050 will be loaded with 640 CUDA cores clocked at 1,354MHz, which can boost up to 1,455MHz to increase performance. On the other hand, the 4GB GTX 1050 Ti having 768 CUDA cores clocked at 1,290MHz to 1,392MHz.
The full-fledged GP107 chip and its 768 stream processors will take make GTX 1050 Ti, gamers first choice. Nvidia is also pairing that chip with 4GB of GDDR5 RAM which will be running at 7GT/s.
The GTX 1050 featuring one of its Pascal streaming multiprocessor units disabled, dropping the SP count to 640 and the texturing unit count to 40. The latest graphic card will have 2GB of GDDR5 RAM, reports Tech Report.
It is important to note that the 1050 is the first Pascal card not labelled "VR ready," as Virtual Reality gaming is trending nowadays.
Now, the Nvidia won't be offering Founders Edition versions of the GTX 1050 or GTX 1050 Ti. Because the deluge of Radeon RX 460s, some of the custom GTX 1050 cards will include an extra 6-pin power connector to push over clocking limits.
On paper, the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti clobber the GTX 750 Ti in pixel fill rates, polygon throughput, and texture filtering rates. The GeForce GTX 950 and GTX 960 are the more sensible points of comparison.
The NVIDIA GeForce partners are representing a global network that will deliver GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti to gamers in 238 countries and territories. According Nvidia's offical Blog, the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti is available everywhere from everyone like NVIDIA GeForce Partners, including ASUS, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, iGame, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac.
