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
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see another video check out this one which is on the
rx470 let's do that and I'll see you
next time