The MSI GTX 1060, not the GTX 1050 Ti, is placed on top of a table. (Photo : YouTube / JayzTwoCents)
NVIDIA has recently announced the new GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti Pascal video cards that seek to take on the Radeon RX 470 and RX 460 from AMD.
Mainstream PC gamers seek to build gaming rigs that do no cost much and the new cards from NVIDIA will only reportedly cost $109 and $139. The GTX 1050 Ti will be the higher-end model as the non-Ti model will have less powerful specs and half the VRAM.
NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050 Specs
The NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti will have 4GB GDDR5 RAM while the GTX 1050 non-Ti model will only have 2GB, The Verge has learned. They will also have different CUDA core counts as the former will have 768 while the latter will only have 640 which still follows the pattern.
No benchmarks have been shown yet but the new Pascal video cards are expected to perform as well as the Polaris cards Radeon RX 470 or at least be better than the RX 460 from AMD. The price range of the GTX 1050 is also close to the $99 retail price for the RX 460 which could mean they will have almost the same performance.
Colorful has new custom GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050 cards to compete with the larger companies. The Colorful iGame GTX 1050 Ti will have a factory-overclocked 1379Mhz base and 1493Mhz boost clock, Tom's Hardware reported.
Meanwhile, the Colorful iGame GTX 1050 2GB model will have 1442Mhz base and 1556Mhz boost clock. The 2GB GDDR5 memory will still be clocked 7GHz the same as its bigger brother.
NVIDIA did not label the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti cards ready for VR which is highly unusual since they are Pascal cards. However, Oculus's new minimum spec for their VR headset could still cover the new cards.
AMD is expected to cute their RX 470 card down to $169 in order to compete. NVIDIA will be rolling out the GTX 1050 Ti on October 25 while the GTX 1050 will be launched on November 8 with the custom cards to follow a few weeks after.
