GTX 1050 & GTX1050TI News and Specs Leaked

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    Nvidia will launch its GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050 next week, pushing its 14nm Pascal hardware into lower price points and presumably offering some tough competition for AMD’s Polaris family. The GTX 1050 Ti will be a 768-core card, with 4GB of RAM, a 128-bit memory interface, 48 texture units, and 32 ROPS, while the GTX 1050 is a 640-core card with 2GB of RAM, 40 texture units, and 32 ROPS. Boost clock is 1392MHz on the 1050 Ti and 1455MHz on the 1050.

Samsung and Nvidia would work together more than a year ago, and while we weren’t sure which chips the two companies would collaborate on, it appears that Nvidia chose to bring up some of its lower-power designs on Samsung silicon. 16nm availability may be tight at TSMC, given that the firm is building Apple’s A10, or Nvidia may just be taking advantage of having more than one firm with cutting-edge process technology on the market.

The GTX 1050 Ti and 1050 are set to debut at $109 and $139 respectively, which puts them squarely on the RX 460’s turf. This comparison hasn’t been strong for AMD so far this cycle, due to a mixture of high prices and weaker-than-desired positioning. The RX 480 8GB remains stuck well above $239 with only intermittent exceptions (there are a few reference board GPUs available for $249, but many cards are in the $279 to $299 range).

                  

RX 460 prices have come down slightly since we reviewed them last month, but AMD hasn’t done particularly well when put head-to-head against Pascal this cycle. The GTX 1060 6GB is faster than the RX 480 and often available for less, and the RX 460 may have a tough fight on its hands against the GTX 1050 / 1050 Ti. Here, moving first may have helped AMD’s sales cycle, but it also allows Nvidia to tailor their own product to beat Team Red.

We’ll have to test the cards before we draw firm conclusions about them, but this could be a tough nut for the RX 460 to crack. With the RX 470 and RX 480, AMD opted to deliver a great deal of memory bandwidth and texture filtering relative to the competition, alongside higher core counts. It put comparatively little emphasis on fill rate — Nvidia’s Pascal cards have substantially higher fill rates than their AMD counterparts this cycle. It’ll be interesting to see how the relative comparisons shake out and where the choke points are for both chips.

Spec

NVIDIA Pascal Specs Comparison
NAME GPU	GTX 1050	GTX 1050 Ti	GTX 1060 3GB	GTX 1060 6GB	GTX 1070	GTX 1080
GPU	GP107-?	GP107-?	GP106 Pascal	GP106 Pascal	GP104-200 Pascal	GP104-400 Pascal
Transistor Count	3.3B	3.3B	4.4B	4.4B	7.2B	7.2B
Fab Process	14nm	14nm	16nm FinFET	16nm FinFET	16nm FinFET	16nm FinFET
CUDA Cores	640	768	1152	1280	1920	2560
GPCs	2	2	2	2	3	4
SMs	5	6	9	10	15	20
TPCs	5	6	9	10	15	20
TMUs	40	48	72	80	120	160
ROPs	32	32	48 (?)	48	64	64
Core Clock	1354MHz	1290MHz	1506MHz	1506MHz	1506MHz	1607MHz
Boost Clock	1455MHz	1392MHz	1708MHz	1708MHz	1683MHz	1733MHz
FP32 TFLOPs	1.86TFLOPs	2.14TFLOPs	3.85TFLOPs	3.85TFLOPs	6.5TFLOPs	9TFLOPs
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5X
Memory Capacity	2GB	4GB	3GB	6GB	8GB	8GB
Memory Clock	7Gbps	7Gbps	8Gbps	8Gbps	8Gbps	10Gbps GDDR5X
Memory Interface	128-bit	128-bit	192-bit	192-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	112GB/s	112GB/s	192GB/s	192GB/s	256GB/s	320.32GB/s
TDP	75W	75W	120W	120W	150W	180W
Power Connectors	None	None	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Release Date	November, 2016	10/25/2016	August, 2016	7/19/2016	6/10/2016	5/27/2016
Release Price	$110	$140	MSRP: $200	Reference: $300 MSRP: $250	Reference: $450 MSRP: $380	Reference: $700 MSRP: $600