NVIDIA is close to launching the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti video cards which are slated to be the GTX 950 and a competitor for the AMD Radeon RX 470.
The mainstream GPU market has been recently dominated by the AMD Polaris GPUs namely the Radeon RX 480, RX 470 and the RX 460. Meanwhile, NVIDIA took the top high-end spot with their GTX 1080, GTX 1070 and the Pascal Titan X.
NVIDIA recently launched the GTX 1060 cards to take on the RX 480 cards and now they are supposedly launching the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti cards to compete with the RX 470 around the $150 price range, iTech Post has learned. The video card's specs is also similar to the GTX 950 card from the Maxwell range.
NVIDIA GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti Specs vs GTX 950
The lowest card out of the three is the GTX 1050 base model which will only have 2GB GDDR5 for its memory. It also has the lowest CUDA core count out of all the Pascal video cards from NVIDIA at just 640.
NVIDIA's GTX 1050 Ti also beats the GTX 950 with the same 768 CUDA core count but with a higher memory at 4GB and faster boost clock speed of 1382MHz compared to the latter's 1188MHz, TrustedReviews reported. The core clock is also higher with the GTX 1050 Ti card at 1290MHz vs the GTX 950's 1024MHz frequency.
Actual GTX 1050 benchmarks are not yet available considering that no review cards have been rolled out yet. However, the specs on paper could already show that the Ti variant is a formidable opponent for the Radeon RX 470 from AMD but some people are already expecting it to cost higher than the $150 price tag of the Polaris card.
NVIDIA has yet to officially announce the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti cards and speculations claim that they will be launched in October. The delay in the roll out or announcement could be blamed on the current supply issue that NVIDIA is facing with almost all of their Pascal video cards.