As is typical when a new line of graphics cards gets
released there's this immediate focus on high-end with Nvidia pushing cards
like the 1080 and 1070 is having unparalleled performance while AMD's our X 480
was supposed to be a VR for the masses type product, but what about the humble
gamer without a bottomless trust fund bank account who just wants a solid 1080p
experience..
Let's have a look at Nvidia's latest offering for the
blue-collar members of the PC masters ,the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti .
So the GTX 1050 Ti is based off the same Pascal
microarchitecture as the rest of the GeForce 10 series but it uses the new GP
107 GPU and this is a bit of a change from the GeForce 9 series where the gtx
950 just ran a cut-down version of the gtx 960 s GPU ,with the 1050 Ti you get 768 CUDA cores with the 1392
megahertz on the boost clock as well as 4 gigabytes of gddr5 vram running on a
128-bit memory bus.
Although these cards aren't compatible with SLI you do get
other GeForce 10 standard features like Nvidia Ansel 4 cool screenshots as well
as support for DirectX 12 and Vulcan ,for our benchmarks we got two flavors of
the card the zotac gtx 750ti mini and the msi gtx 750ti OC both feature a
modest factory overclock with the zotac running at fourteen hundred and
seventeen megahertz on the boost clock and the msi running just a bit higher at
fourteen hundred and fifty-five .
Both of these cards are small form-factor and don't require any power beyond what the motherboards PCIe slot can provide in fact in our Crysis 3 load tests our system drew less than 160 watts from the wall in entirety while staying below about 60 ish degrees Celsius .
very interesting numbers if you're fighting size power or thermal limits in your current system, or are they ! .
Both of these cards are small form-factor and don't require any power beyond what the motherboards PCIe slot can provide in fact in our Crysis 3 load tests our system drew less than 160 watts from the wall in entirety while staying below about 60 ish degrees Celsius .
very interesting numbers if you're fighting size power or thermal limits in your current system, or are they ! .
To give a real answer we of course need to look at
performance in real games so here's how our 1050 Ti stacked up on our
core i7 68 50k test bench that we use for all of our testing to standardize our
results and eliminate bottlenecks, all tests were performed at 1080p as this is
a less powerful card that isn't really aimed at users going for 1440p or 4k .
Starting out with the after mentioned Crysis 3 which is
still a punishing title after over three and a half years the 1050 Ti performed
quite well for a card targeted squarely at the lower middle end of the market
it managed frame rates in the low 40s on very high presets while bumping things
down to hi delivers a buttery smooth experience at 71 frames per second.
Moving on to rise of the Tomb Raider the story was somewhat
similar with the 1050 TI managing close to 60 FPS on high settings while
very high will set you back about 10 frames ,DirectX 12 unfortunately didn't
help matters ,costing us a few FPS actually which has been a recurring theme on
the latest Nvidia set of hardware.
The much-anticipated battlefield 1 played very nicely with
both of our 1050 Ti scoring in the low 60s on Ultra settings performance
on the highest preset in Doom was similarly impressive with frame rates in the
upper 60s .
But although these numbers are quite good for a budget oriented 1080p focused card does that necessarily mean the card is a good value ,well that depends on how you define value.
If you go for strict dollars per frame analysis the gtx 750ti doesn't exactly come out looking that good as you can see on this graph below.
But although these numbers are quite good for a budget oriented 1080p focused card does that necessarily mean the card is a good value ,well that depends on how you define value.
If you go for strict dollars per frame analysis the gtx 750ti doesn't exactly come out looking that good as you can see on this graph below.
However many buyers looking for a graphics card in this
price range mostly care about just smooth 1080p performance at respectable settings
without any dunking around and right now the $140 GTX 1050 Ti is the cheapest
card that hits all these marks as it scored very close to or above 60 FPS at
high settings in all of our games and scored at least in the mid 40s or even
higher at the max presets .
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