GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Review – Budget Builder's Dream VGA Card?

Last week Nvidia released the GeForce GTX 1050 series which promises good performance for gamers on a limited budget. Well today, Pemmzchannel got the chance to get hands on and do a limited test for the GTX 1050 Ti. Let’s take a peek at how it performs in the following quick review of the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.

Just to remind you of your own specifications, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. The graphics card uses a chip GP107 consisting of 768 CUDA Core with 48 TMU and 32 ROP. GP107 on GTX 1050 Ti running on base clock speed 1290 MHz with boost clock speed 1392 MHz. For memory alone GTX 1050 Ti loads 4GB GDDR5 running at clockspeed 7008 MHz with a memory bus of 128 Bit. For connectivity, the GTX 1050 Ti has its own display connector DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0, and Dual Link DVI. The GTX 1050 Ti has a TDP of just 75 Watt with a minimum power supply requirement of 300 Watt.

The GP107 contained in the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is the latest chip from Nvidia that uses the 14nm FinFET process. Smaller than its big brothers who use 16nm FinFET. The result of a smaller process is back again as discussed, less power and also similar performance with smaller chips. With this process, both the GeForce GTX 1050 and the GTX 1050 Ti do not require additional power connectors and can have a smaller PCB size.

Like its big brother the GeForce GTX 1060, the GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti don’t support SLI. However, other features contained in Pascal remain intact, such as Ansel. Ansel is a feature to take screenshots on your favorite games with a free camera feature and also various filters with very high photo resolution. In addition, power efficiency and performance increases compared to Maxwell are also still met.

In this review of the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, we have a sample from Galax, the Galax version of the GTX 1050 Ti is equipped with two 80mm fans with wide heatsinks reinforced by a fairly thick copper heatpipe. Oh yes, Galax also added a 6pin power connector for a cleaner power supply and also for overclocking.

Hardware Lab

Core i7 3770 – 3.4GHz
8GB DDR3 1600MHz
256GB Patriot SSD
GeForce Driver 375.63

We will use 3DMark Firestrike for Synthetic Benchmark in this review of the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. And as a comparison, I can only give a comparison on the 3DMark Firestrike segment for Graphic Score, because of the limited time in this quick review.

For game benchmarks we use GTA V on all settings at Very High except Tesselation, with 2x MSAA without Nvidia TXAA to maintain justice with the red camp. Also all advanced graphics settings are set off. Besides GTA V, pemmzchannel also uses Rise of the Tomb Raider with Very High preset in game settings. For the last test we also added Rainbow Six Siege to the ultra setting.

Results

3DMark Firestrike Graphics : 7721
GTA V : 49 FPS Average
Rise of the Tomb Raider : 48 FPS Average
Rainbow Six Siege : 79 FPS Average

For overclocking itself, we find that the boost clock is stuck at 1911MHz, if the GPU tries to exceed that number, the system becomes unstable. Meanwhile, for memory, we are able to pull the clock up to 8000MHz, and the possibility could be even higher but limited by the maximum limit.

To conclude, we give a big rating for the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. For only $139 you can play AAA games with Very High or Ultra settings with FPS above 30. The results are very surprising considering the price and also the very small power consumption. If you want to play with a smooth FPS then you can lower some settings that are very performance consuming such as tessellation or anti aliasing.

The position of the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is right between the Radeon RX460 and the GTX 1060 3GB and Radeon RX470, both in terms of performance and price. The tight competition between the two camps ultimately provides an advantage for us gamers.

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