After a of a couple of months of their Pascal launch, NVIDIA is back again to launch a new Pascal desktop product. Following their near-perfect top-down launch schedule that started with GeForce GTX 1080 in May, being announced today and formally launching next week is the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GeForce GTX 1050. Aimed at the entry level discrete video card market, these products will round-out the GeForce 10-series desktop lineup.
Launching their low-tier cards last instead of first for the Pascal generation marks an inverse of what happened with the Maxwell generation. In 2014 it was the low-end Maxwell 1 parts that launched first, only to be followed up by the other Maxwell 2 parts later on in the year. As a result, the Maxwell 2 family went through a full cycle – from release to retirement – before NVIDIA’s entry-level cards were refreshed.
And to that end, here we are with the GeForce GTX 1050 series. The previous GeForce GTX 750 series went very well for NVIDIA, so much so that the new 1050 series follows a number of beats laid out by its predecessor. NVIDIA is launching two cards – both of which are based on the new GP107 – which setup a two-tier product offering for the entry level market. The faster of the two cards is the GTX 1050 Ti, while the GTX 1050 follows closely to offer a bit less performance at a lower price point. And in order to maximize compatibility, both cards are being offered in configurations that draw their power entirely from the PCIe bus, Which in my opinion is there biggest selling point.
NVIDIA GPU Specification Comparison
| GTX 1060 3 GB | GTX 1050 ti | GTX 1050 | GTX 750 ti | GTX 750 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cuda Cores | 1152 | 768 | 640 | 640 | 512 |
| Texture Unit | 72 | 48 | 40 | 40 | 32 |
| ROPs | 48 | 32 | 32 | 16 | 16 |
| Core Clock | 1506MHz | 1290MHz | 1354MHz | 1020MHz | 1020MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1709MHz | 1392MHz | 1455MHz | 1085MHz | 1085MHz |
| Memory Clock | 8Gbps GDDR5 | 7Gbps GDDR5 | 7Gbps GDDR5 | 5.4Gbps GDDR5 | 5.Gbps GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus Width | 192-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| VRAM | 3GB | 4GB | 2GB | 2GB | 1GB |
| FP64 | 1/32 | 1/32 | 1/32 | 1/32 | 1/32 |
| TDP | 120W | 75W | 75W | 60W | 55W |
| GPU | GP106 | GP107 | GP107 | GM107 | GM107 |
| Transistor Count | 4.4B | 3.3B | 3.3B | 1.87B | 1.87B |
| Manufacturing Process | 16nm | 14nm | 14nm | 28nm | 28nm |
| Lunch Date | 18/08/16 | 25/10/16 | 25/10/16 | 18/02/14 | 18/02/14 |
| Launch Price | $199 | $139 | $109 | $149 | $119 |
If we look into the specs, we’ll start with the GTX 1050 Ti. It is fully enabled GP107 GPU, this card is arguably the backbone of NVIDIA’s entry-level offerings. All-told, it has 6 SMs enabled – 60% that of GP106/GTX 1060 – so GP107 is a bit more than half of a GP106. The rest of the Pascal architecture has been scaled similarly; GP107/GTX 1050 Ti retains 2/3rds of the ROP and memory controller configuration, meaning we’re looking at 32 ROPs attached to a 128-bit memory bus. Notably, this is double the number of ROPs found on GTX 750, so all other factors held equal, GTX 1050 Ti will see a massive jump in ROP throughput compared to its predecessor.
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