A player tries out the ASUS G751JY G-SYNC laptop with the GTX 980M, not the GTX 1060 or the GTX 1050 Ti mobile version. (Photo : YouTube / Tech of Tomorrow)
AMD has seemingly exhausted all of their efforts to take on the mainstream market with the last being the Radeon RX 460 but NVIDIA could have the final win with their rumored GTX 1050.
The NVIDIA GTX 1060 3GB model was supposed to be the GTX 1050 but it turns out that the rumor was just a speculation. Now, a new leaked spec sheet of the alleged GP107 GPU is spreading throughout the Internet.
NVIDIA has already launched the GTX 1080, GTX 1070 and even the GTX 1060. The GTX 1050 could be next and its rumored specs include 1380 for the boost clock with only 768 CUDA cores, WCCFTech has learned.
It would be NVIDIA's lowest tiered video card in the GTX 1000 series unless they would still plan to release a new one. Fans are already expecting the GTX 1080 Ti to be released next considering that the Pascal Titan X card has already been rolled out recently.
Interestingly, the GTX 1050 is shown to have 4GB GDDR5 memory which is higher than the GTX 1060's 3GB model but not over the 6GB variant. There are also 32 ROPs and 48 TMUs which is still higher than the predecessor.
All in all, the GP107 card will be 128-bit and carry 112.1GB/s for the memory bandwidth. The NVIDIA GTX 1050 will have a total of 52.1 GPixel/s for the pixel fillrate and 84.2 GTexel/s for the texture fillrate, TechSpot reported.
Just like the Radeon RX 460, it is also expected to have a TDP of only 75 watts. Although some are expecting that the GTX 1050 will compete with the Radeon RX 470 instead considering that the GTX 1060 competes with the RX 480.
Instead of the $99 price tag, the GTX 1050 could have the $150 price instead although there is no evidence to support it yet. In addition, it is expected to only have 2.1 TFLOPs in performance which is almost the same as the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.
NVIDIA's GTX 1050 release date is expected to be around October 2016 with a launch price of $150. The company could still drive the price down to really compete with the RX 460 which only costs around $99.
