There are speculations that American GPU manufacturer NVIDIA will be presenting fresh products soon. Gaming notebooks equipped with the NVIDIA GTX 1050 are speculated to be unveiled at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show early next year. There is also a rumor that the company is about to release a GTX 1060 3GB video graphics card equipped with the GP104 GPU.
According to Digital Trends, sources in connection to the supply chain have whispered that gaming laptops equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 could be unveiled during the CES 2017 event. By the first weekend of January, Asus, Gigabyte, Lenovo and MSI will reportedly unveil their latest gaming mobile computers equipped with the video graphics card.
The GTX 1050 is at the lower spectrum of the latest Pascal-based cards in terms of price and performance. The desktop variant of the card has a suggested retail price of $110, while the Ti variant is around $140.
In terms of specifications, the entry level video graphics card comes with 640 CUDA cores, 1.35 MHz base clock speed, 1.45MHz boost clock speed, 2GB GDDR5 VRAM, 7GB/s memory speed, 128-bit memory interface and 112GB/s memory bandwidth. The GTX 1050 Ti is slightly more powerful with 768 CUDA cores, 1.29 MHz base clock speed, 1.39 boost clock speed, 4GB GDDR5 VRAM and similar values with the rest. These two video cards are not designed for VR applications and SLI.
Additionally, the laptops are said to sport the Intel Kaby Lake-H processor. There will also be other computing products based on the upcoming 200 Series chipsets designed for motherboards and mini PCs that are speculated to be unveiled.
Moreover, NVDIA is also said to be gearing up to launch a GP104 GPU-based GTX 1060. While this is not a new variant of the card, the hunch is, it similar to the 3 GB model released earlier with the GP106 GPU, Video Cardz reported.
Rumors suggest that the GP104 GPUs are the defective chips for the GTX 1080/1070 cards that were not able to have all 1,920 CUDA cores working. Instead of throwing them away, it is said to be re-purposed and named as GP104-140 GPU. The extra CUDA cores could be disabled via its BIOS but will likely have a higher power requirement than the original GTX 1060.
It is also speculated that the video graphics cards will only be available in China. According to the same publication, it is already listed on the driver's page of NVIDIA, bearing the ID of NVIDIA_DEV.1B84, but the GPU manufacturer has not made it official.