Impressive Budget Gaming Experience - GTX 1050 Ti Review
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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999 words · ~4 min read
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as is typical when a new line of graphics cards gets released there's
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this immediate focus on high-end with NVIDIA pushing cards like the 1080 and
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1070 as having unparalleled performance
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while AMD's rx480 was supposed to be a
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VR for the masses type product but what
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about the humble gamer without a bottomless trust fund bank account who
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just wants a solid 1080p experience let's have a look at NVIDIA's latest
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offering for the blue caller members of the PC Master race the GeForce GTX 1050
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TI Mast drop is currently featuring the infinti Ergo do split keyboard kit check
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it out in the video description so the GTX 1050 TI is based off the same
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passcal micro architecture as the rest of the GeForce 10 series but it uses the
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new GP 107 GPU this is a bit of a change
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from the GeForce 9 series where the GTX 950 just ran a cutdown version of the
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GTX 960s GPU with the 1050 TI you get
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768 cutic cores with a 1392 MHz on the
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Boost clock as well as 4 GB of GDDR 5 V
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RAM running on a 128bit memory bus
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although these cards aren't compatible with SLI you do get other GeForce 10
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standard features like NVIDIA anzel for cool screenshots as well as support for
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for directx12 and Vulcan for our benchmarks we got two flavors of the
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card the Zotac GTX 1050ti mini and the
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MSI GTX 1050 TI OC both Feature A Modest
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Factory overclock with the Zotac running at 1417 MHz on the Boost clock and the
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MSI running just a bit higher at 1455 both of these cards are small form
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factor and don't require any power beyond what the motherboard's PC slot
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can provide in fact in our Crisis 3 load test our system Drew less than
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160 Watts from the wall in entirety while staying below about 60-ish de C
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very interesting numbers if you're fighting size power or thermal limits in
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your current system or are they to give
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a real answer we of course need to look at performance in real games so here's
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how our 1050 TI stacked up on our core
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i7 6850k test bench that we use for all
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of our testing to standardize our results and eliminate bottlenecks all
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tests were performed at 1080p as this is a less powerful card that isn't really
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aimed at users going for 1440p or 4K
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starting out with the aformentioned Crisis 3 which is still a punishing
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title after over 3 and 1 half years the 1050ti performed quite well for a car
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targeted squarely at the lower middle end of the market it managed frame rates
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in the low 40s on very high presets
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while bumping things down to high delivers a buttery smooth experience at
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71 frames per second moving on to rise of the Tomb Raider the story was
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somewhat similar with the 1050ti managing close to 60 FPS on high
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settings while very high will set you back about 10 Frames Direct X2
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unfortunately didn't help matters costing us a few FPS actually which has
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been a recurring theme on the latest NVIDIA set of Hardware the much
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anticipated Battlefield 1 played very nicely with both of our 1050 TI scoring
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in the low 60s on ultra settings performance on the highest preset in
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Doom was similarly impressive with frame rates in the upper 60s but although
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these numbers are quite good for a budget oriented 1080p focused card does
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that necessarily mean the card is a good value well that depends on how you
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define value if you go for strict dollars per frame analysis the GTX
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1050ti doesn't exactly come out looking
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that good as you can see on this graph
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however many buyers looking for a graphics card in this price range mostly
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care about just smooth 1080p performance at respectable settings without any
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dunking around and right now the $140
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GTX 1050 TI is the cheapest card that
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hits all these marks as it scored very
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close to or above 60 FPS at high
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settings in all of our games and scored
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at least in the mid 4S or even higher at the max presets right now it's closest
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competitor on the red team the $100 rx460 can't really say the same but then
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40 bucks is a pretty big price Delta at
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this end of the market however given that The Next Step Up performance- wise
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is the rx470 at $50 more it seems like
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the 1050 TI has a nice little spot carved out for it for the folks that
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just want to come as close to possible to maxing out titles in 1080P for the
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least amount of money a assuming that the actual prices line up with MSRP at
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all as I discussed in detail in this
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video so if you are in the market for a more budget oriented card it doesn't do
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for PC gaming what you know like Doritos Locos Tacos did for the simulated
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Mexican food market but it'll do thanks
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for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome and you're like whoa more cheap
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graphics cards yeah hit the like button get subscribed all that awesome stuff
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check out the links the video description down below where you can buy stuff like these graphics cards or these
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cool shirts or talk about things on the Forum like how we NVIDIA shells or like
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how we're AMD shells or like how we're Intel shells or like how we're insert
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other brand here shells either of those would probably work uh if you want to
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see another video check out this one which is on the
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rx470 let's do that and I'll see you
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next time