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The GTX 1050 Ti represents Nvidia Pascal's foray into the lower-cost end of mainstream territory that is currently being fought competitively by AMD with the company's current-generation RX 460 and RX 470 Polaris GPUs. With a suggested retail price of £139, Nvidia has carved out a price point which sits the GTX 1050 Ti 4GB somewhat unopposed between the RX 460 and RX 470.
Targeting 1080p gamers, how will the GP107-powered GTX 1050 Ti based on Samsung's 14nm manufacturing process perform? In light of no Founder's Edition of reference board, we answer that question using MSI's factory-overclocked GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Gaming X graphics card.
According to the Steam Hardware survey, 1920×1080 is still, by far, the most popular resolution for PC gamers. So it makes perfect sense for GPU vendors to continually push graphics cards with the sole intention of offering competitive 1080p60 gaming performance. And that's exactly where Nvidia's GTX 1050 Ti comes into play.
AMD's mainstream-first launch approach to its current generation of GPUs has given the company a good position in the lower-cost ends of the mainstream market. The Polaris 11, 14nm RX 460 goes up against Nvidia hardware that is two generation older than Team Green's freshest architecture – the Gen 1 Maxwell-touting GTX 750 Ti.
Go a couple of tenners higher to around £140 and you're at a price point where last generation hardware from both teams is still king; GTX 950 for Nvidia and, roughly, R9 380 for AMD, if you can source an offering. Needless to say, this section of the mainstream market is overdue an update to its offerings.
The new GP107 GPU is built using Samsung's 14nm FinFET manufacturing process. This is different to the higher-end Pascal offerings which use the 16nm FinFET process from TSMC. Transistor count sits at 3.3 Billion. A pair of graphics processing clusters combine to give a total of 768 CUDA cores, 48 Texture Units, and 32 ROPs.
In its reference form, GTX 1050 Ti operates at a base clock of 1290MHz, with a boost frequency of 1392MHz. The four Gigabytes of GDDR5 memory are clocked at 1752MHz, or 7Gbps effective, and access a 128-bit bus. No 2GB or 8GB variants exist. And that's a good thing as 2GB would present an imbalance against the underlying GPU horsepower, while 8GB would be a waste. The higher-priced 3GB GTX 1060 is looking a little red-faced, at least when it comes to VRAM capacity.
Rated TDP of the GTX 1050 Ti is 75W, which is a notable 25% increase over the GTX 750 Ti that the GP107-powered card realistically replaces. But it's still lower than AMD's 120W RX 470. And that 75W figure is actually an important point. The 75W board power rating possibility means that GTX 1050 Ti cards can be designed without a power connector. This makes them suitable for upgrading an off-the-shelf PC with a basic power supply (300W recommended by Nvidia) from the likes of Dell or HP.
But 75W puts the GPU right on the limit of what the PCIe motherboard connector is capable of delivering. Put simply, factory-overclocked graphics card may be forced to utilise a 6-pin PCIe power connector. That's a stark contrast to the GTX 750 Ti, which saw even heavily-overclocked cards (such as the EVGA Superclocked variant we use) shipping without the need for a supplementary power connector, thus widening their applicable market.
Focusing on features, the usual set of Pascal offerings are available – Simultaneous Multi-Projection (SMP) technology, enhanced memory compression technology, and Ansel. As is the case with GTX 1060, SLI is not supported for GTX 1050 Ti. Depending on your preference for hardware upgrades, this may be an issue. However, it is likely that this calibre of graphics card will be better served by being replaced with a newer model in a few years, rather than adding a second card for SLI.
| GPU | AMD RX 460 | AMD RX 470 | Nvidia GTX 750 Ti |
Nvidia GTX 950 | Nvidia GTX 960 | Nvidia GTX 970 | Nvidia GTX 1050 | Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti | Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB |
| GPU Codename | Baffin | Ellesmere | GM107 | GM206 | GM206 | GM204 | GP107 | GP107 | GP106 |
| Streaming Multiprocessors /Compute Units |
14 | 32 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 9 |
| GPU Cores | 896 | 2048 | 640 | 768 | 1024 | 1664 | 640 | 768 | 1152 |
| Base Clock | 1090 MHz | 926 MHz | 1020 MHz | 1024 MHz | 1126 MHz | 1050 MHz | 1354 MHz | 1290 MHz | 1506 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1200 MHz | 1206 MHz | 1085 MHz | 1188 MHz | 1178 MHz | 1178 MHz | 1455 MHz | 1392 MHz | 1708 MHz |
| Total Video Memory | 2GB or 4GB | 4GB or 8GB | 2GB | 2GB | 2GB or 4GB | 4GB | 2GB | 4GB | 3GB |
| Texture Units | 56 | 128 | 40 | 48 | 64 | 104 | 40 | 48 | 72 |
| Texture fill rate | 67.2 GT/s | 154.4 GT/s | 40.8 GT/s | 49.2 GT/s | 72 GT/s | 109.2 GT/s | 54.2 GT/s | 62.0 GT/s | 108.4 GT/s |
| Memory Clock | 7000 MHz | 6600 MHz | 5400 MHz | 6612 MHz | 7000 MHz | 7000 MHz | 7008 MHz | 7008 MHz | 8008 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 112 GB/s | 211.2 GB/s | 86.4 GB/s | 105.8 GB/s | 112 GB/s | 224 GB/s | 112.1 GB/s | 112.1 GB/s | 192.2 GB/s |
| Bus Width | 128-bit | 256-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 256-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 192-bit |
| ROPs | 16 | 32 | 16 | 32 | 32 | 56 | 32 | 32 | 48 |
| Manufacturing Process | 14nm | 14nm | 28nm | 28nm | 28nm | 28nm | 14nm | 14nm | 16nm |
| TDP | 75W | 120W | 60W | 90W | 120W | 145W | 75W | 75W | 120W |
| Power Connector(s) | None | 1×6-pin | None | 1×6-pin | 1×6-pin | 2×6-pin | None | None | 1×6-pin |
| Current OcUK Starting Price | ~£125 (4GB) | ~£170 (4GB) | ~£120 | ~£130 Amazon | N/A | N/A | ~£115 | ~£140 | ~£190 |
One for the NV Fanboys, Smart buyers will go for RX470
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Not necessarily. It depends on how much you want to spend on a GPU. I just bought one of these today after reading this review, among many others. I picked it up for AU$229 while the cheapest RX470 I can find is AU$279 (HIS brand) or AU$308 for a similar MSI version (MSI Radeon RX470 Gaming X). Yeah “it’s only $50 difference” (or $79 for the MSI) but I didn’t want to spend the extra money on my spare computer (wife will use it mainly). (Side note: My PC has a GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming Waterforce so I can appreciate more powerful cards, but it’s overkill for my spare).
For the same price point I’d have to get a Sapphire Radeon RX460 Nitro 4GB, and it simply isn’t as good as the MSI GTX 1050 Ti Gaming X card.
At least Nvidia gpus manage to keep a steady high fps without random fps drops in the finished game, and not just in the alpha version like certain other gpus.
I got one of these last saterday as a bday present.I personally have to say price to performance this are most prob the best card here.I opted for the 1060 3gb but then i had to upgrade psu etc.I am not much of a gamer(mostly emulator games as i am old school gamer)I love to push the limit of the card.
The oc capability are mind boggling.Started today.Got it to 150 mhz on the gpu and 200 mhz on the memory.Stock voltage.Pretty sure will get around 350 on the memory on stock(if i am lucky)After reading some reviews it performs pretty well.Problem for me are i am still running an amd FX 4170 k.Will be getting the nxt gen ryzen cpu as not wasting time again on first gen cpu’s.Just personally i am truly impressed.Not a big msi fan but from back in 2004 or something they had some of the best oc cards out there(my old 9600 pro could do around a 25%+ oc back then :D)