NVIDIA announces GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GeForce GTX 1050

NVIDIA introduces GeForce GTX 1050 series based on Pascal GP107 graphics processor.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050

This tiny card showcased below is a reference GTX 1050 design. As far as I know, this design will not be sold by AIBs, since GTX 1050 series are mostly custom cards. In fact, it doesn’t seem like NVIDIA is planning to sell GTX 1050 Founders Edition either, it would probably defeat the purpose of cheap GTX 10 card anyway.

Both GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050 are based on Pascal GP107 GPU. The GTX 1050 Ti card ships with 768 CUDA cores and 4GB GDDR5 memory, the latter features 640 CUDA cores and 2GB GDDR5 memory. Probably the biggest news as of yesterday is the price of these cards. NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti will be sold for 139 USD, while GTX 1050 will cost you 109 USD. I don’t think there will be a problem finding cards at this price, but don’t forget those are just NVIDIA’s suggested retail prices.

GeForce GTX 1050 series will be available for purchase starting from October 25th.

Here are the specs of GTX 1050 series.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Series Specifications
VideoCardz.com	GTX 1060 6GB	GTX 1060 3GB	GTX 1050 Ti	GTX 1050
Fabrication Process	16nm FinFET	16nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET
GPU	GP106-400	GP106-300	GP107-400	GP107-300
CUDA Cores	1280	1152	768	640
TMUs	80	72	48	40
ROPs	48	48	32	32
Base Clock	1506 MHz	1506 MHz	1290 MHz	1354 MHz
Boost Clock	1709 MHz	1709 MHz	1392 MHz	1455 MHz
Memory Clock	2002 MHz	2002 MHz	1752 MHz	1752 MHz
Eff. Mem. Clock	8008 MHz	8008 MHz	7008 MHz	7008 MHz
Memory	6GB GDDR5	3GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR5	2GB GDDR5
Memory Bus	192-bit	192-bit	128-bit	128-bit
TDP	120W	120W	75W	75W
Launch Price	249 USD	199 USD	139 USD	109 USD
Launch Date	July 2016	August 2016	October 2016	October 2016

Just like refreshed version of GTX 950, GTX 1050 series will not require any power connectors. It is however possible for AIBs to add such connectors if they find it necessary.

Lastly, here are official benchmarks for GTX 1050 non-Ti. Please do not ask me why NVIDIA decided to compare it against ancient GTX 650, when we already have GTX 750 and GTX 950..