NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop)

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 is an entry level graphics card for desktops based on the Pascal architecture. It uses the same GP107 chip as the GTX 1050 Ti, but with only 640 instead of 768 shaders. The chip is manufactured at Samsung in 14 nm (opposed to the 16 nm TSCM based Pascal chips of the 1060 and up). The performance and specs should be similar to the GTX 1050 laptop version, that will be released later (early 2017). Compared to the faster GTX 1050 Ti, the 1050 offers less shaders (640 instead of 768) and only 2 GB of GDDR5 (instead of the 4 GB of the 1050 Ti).

Gaming benchmarks by Nvidia state that the GTX 1050 is about 30% faster on average than the Radeon RX 460 with 2 GB VRAM. The 4 GB version of the RX 460 should be about 10% slower and the older GTX 950 should reach a similar performance level as the new GTX 1050. Therefore, the GTX 1050 should be ideal for 1080p gaming with high detail settings (but not max settings).

GeForce GTX 1000 Series GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 3584 @ 1.48 - 1.6 GHz 352 Bit @ 11000 MHz GeForce GTX 1080 SLI (Laptop) 5120 @ 1.56 - 1.73 GHz 256 Bit @ 10000 MHz GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Desktop) 3840 @ 1.51 - 1.68 GHz 256 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Laptop) 4096 @ 1.44 - 1.65 GHz 256 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop) 2560 @ 1.61 - 1.73 GHz 256 Bit @ 10000 MHz GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 2560 @ 1.57 - 1.73 GHz 256 Bit @ 10000 MHz GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (Desktop) 2432 @ 1.61 - 1.68 GHz 256 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop) 1920 @ 1.51 - 1.68 GHz 256 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 2560 @ 1.1 - 1.28 GHz 256 Bit @ 10000 MHz GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile 2048 @ 1.44 - 1.65 GHz 256 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 2048 @ 1.1 - 1.27 GHz 256 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1060 (Desktop) 1280 @ 1.51 - 1.71 GHz 192 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 1280 @ 1.4 - 1.67 GHz 192 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 1280 @ 1.06 - 1.34 GHz 192 Bit @ 8000 MHz GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile 768 @ 1.49 - 1.62 GHz 128 Bit @ 7000 MHz GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Desktop) 768 @ 1.29 - 1.39 GHz 128 Bit @ 7008 MHz GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q 768 @ 1.15 - 1.29 GHz 128 Bit @ 7000 MHz GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop) 640 @ 1.35 - 1.46 GHz 128 Bit @ 7008 MHz GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 640 @ 1.35 - 1.49 GHz 128 Bit @ 7000 MHz GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 640 @ 1 - 1.14 GHz 128 Bit @ 7000 MHz GeForce GT 1030 (Desktop) 384 @ 1.23 - 1.67 GHz 64 Bit @ 6000 MHz
Codename	N17P-G1
Architecture	Pascal
Pipelines	640 - unified
Core Speed	1354 - 1455 (Boost) MHz
Memory Speed	7008 MHz
Memory Bus Width	128 Bit
Memory Type	GDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory	2048 MB
Shared Memory	no
API	DirectX 12_1, OpenGL 4.5
technology	14 nm
Features	Multi-Projection, VR Ready, G-SYNC, Vulkan, Multi Monitor
Date of Announcement	25.10.2016

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