{"video_id":"UKxUh9XjUPI","title":"Impressive Budget Gaming Experience - GTX 1050 Ti Review","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2017-05-06T14:53:29Z","duration_s":356,"segments":[{"start_s":0.28,"end_s":7.04,"text":"as is typical when a new line of graphics cards gets released there's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.2,"end_s":12.719,"text":"this immediate focus on high-end with NVIDIA pushing cards like the 1080 and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.559,"end_s":15.719,"text":"1070 as having unparalleled performance","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.719,"end_s":18.72,"text":"while AMD's rx480 was supposed to be a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.719,"end_s":21.08,"text":"VR for the masses type product but what","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.72,"end_s":26.72,"text":"about the humble gamer without a bottomless trust fund bank account 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thanks","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":321.96,"end_s":329.0,"text":"for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome and you're like whoa more cheap","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":326.36,"end_s":331.68,"text":"graphics cards yeah hit the like button get subscribed all that awesome stuff","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":330.759,"end_s":336.919,"text":"check out the links the video description down below where you can buy stuff like these graphics cards or these","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":335.0,"end_s":341.319,"text":"cool shirts or talk about things on the Forum like how we NVIDIA shells or like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":339.36,"end_s":346.0,"text":"how we're AMD shells or like how we're Intel shells or like how we're insert","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":344.039,"end_s":349.72,"text":"other brand here shells either of those would probably work uh if you want to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":348.0,"end_s":354.12,"text":"see another video check out this one which is on the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":351.039,"end_s":357.12,"text":"rx470 let's do that and I'll see you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":354.12,"end_s":357.12,"text":"next time","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"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 as having unparalleled performance while AMD's rx480 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 caller members of the PC Master race the GeForce GTX 1050 TI Mast drop is currently featuring the infinti Ergo do split keyboard kit check it out in the video description so the GTX 1050 TI is based off the same passcal micro architecture as the rest of the GeForce 10 series but it uses the new GP 107 GPU this is a bit of a change from the GeForce 9 series where the GTX 950 just ran a cutdown version of the GTX 960s GPU with the 1050 TI you get 768 cutic cores with a 1392 MHz on the Boost clock as well as 4 GB of GDDR 5 V RAM running on a 128bit memory bus although these cards aren't compatible with SLI you do get other GeForce 10 standard features like NVIDIA anzel for cool screenshots as well as support for for directx12 and Vulcan for our benchmarks we got two flavors of the card the Zotac GTX 1050ti mini and the MSI GTX 1050 TI OC both Feature A Modest Factory overclock with the Zotac running at 1417 MHz on the Boost clock and the MSI running just a bit higher at 1455 both of these cards are small form factor and don't require any power beyond what the motherboard's PC slot can provide in fact in our Crisis 3 load test our system Drew less than 160 Watts from the wall in entirety while staying below about 60-ish de C 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 6850k 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 aformentioned Crisis 3 which is still a punishing title after over 3 and 1 half years the 1050ti performed quite well for a car 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 high 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 1050ti managing close to 60 FPS on high settings while very high will set you back about 10 Frames Direct X2 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 1050ti doesn't exactly come out looking that good as you can see on this graph 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 4S or even higher at the max presets right now it's closest competitor on the red team the $100 rx460 can't really say the same but then 40 bucks is a pretty big price Delta at this end of the market however given that The Next Step Up performance- wise is the rx470 at $50 more it seems like the 1050 TI has a nice little spot carved out for it for the folks that just want to come as close to possible to maxing out titles in 1080P for the least amount of money a assuming that the actual prices line up with MSRP at all as I discussed in detail in this video so if you are in the market for a more budget oriented card it doesn't do for PC gaming what you know like Doritos Locos Tacos did for the simulated Mexican food market but it'll do thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome and you're like whoa more cheap graphics cards yeah hit the like button get subscribed all that awesome stuff check out the links the video description down below where you can buy stuff like these graphics cards or these cool shirts or talk about things on the Forum like how we NVIDIA shells or like how we're AMD shells or like how we're Intel shells or like how we're insert other brand here shells either of those would probably work uh if you want to see another video check out this one which is on the rx470 let's do that and I'll see you next time"}