I tested the GTX 1050 Ti in our in-house test rig. The cutbacks compared to the 1050 Ti are relatively small, but some of the performance differentials are vast. This chart compares the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with the most popular Graphics Cards over the last 30 days. Jarred doesn't play games, he runs benchmarks. The GTX 1050 Ti stakes a claim to the fastest $140-ish budget GPU on the market, easily beating the RX 460 4GB—though that card does cost a bit less. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is based on a fully enabled version of the GP107 processor and is delivered with four gigabytes of RAM. The biggest addition in a card like the 1050 Ti is improved delta color compression, which Nvidia has previously claimed reduces memory bandwidth load by around 30 percent. The GTX 1050 Ti costs $140 or more, and the chief competition is AMD's RX 460 4GB which can be found for as little as $120. Where things get a little murky is when you factor in architectural improvements from Pascal. Die size is mostly an advantage for the manufacturer—notice that the GP107 is 40 percent smaller than the GM206, for example. Bear in mind that you can see just cards from different generations - Pascal, Maxwell, Kepler - by using the controls to the right of the video. Factor in a constant defect rate and yields for GP107 might be close to twice as high per wafer as GM206. The RX 560 does even more poorly, with both variants of the card recording less than 30 frames per second for a barely playable experience at these settings. The game remains a threat to this day using its very high preset, with all four cards recording results below 60fps at 1080p. We used ACU for this test as it requires a good amount of VRAM, which can tank performance in some cards that lack sufficient reserves, and its ultra high preset offers a considerable challenge, even to modern GPUs at 1080p. We've benched cards that feature both 14 and 16 compute units (let's not get into the totally odd reasons why AMD has done this) and we've also tested cards that use PCI Express power, which provide maximum boost clocks (cards without are available, but are power constrained, losing a touch of performance). Meanwhile, the GTX 1050 3GB sits between the two other Nvidia cards with a result of 44fps. What's exciting is that, using the GTX 1050 Ti, you can build a legitimate budget gaming PC for under $500—see the above parts list as one example. ", Demon's Souls player discovers the PS5 records mic audio as it captures Trophy gameplay via their own rousing boss kill clip, eBay issues warning to scammers selling photos of PS5s, Amateur dev remakes CD-i games Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon so we can suffer them again, 27 years later, PS5 owners are exploiting a loophole to sell the PS Plus Collection to PS4 owners, Hwang is the final SoulCalibur 6 Season Pass 2 DLC character, Jelly DealsDell's Black Friday weekend continues, Final Fantasy 14's next major patch comes out 8th December. Cyber Monday deals: see all the best offers right now! The lack of memory once again causes issues for the GTX 1050 2GB, which also had issues streaming in textures and geometry effectively. Unlike the GP100, GP102, GP104, and GP106 that have already seen light of day, the GP107 is manufactured on Samsung's 14nm FinFET process—all the other Pascal GPUs are currently using TSMC's 16nm FinFET process. The bigger problem for the 1050 Ti isn't the RX 460, but rather the RX 470 4GB and GTX 1060 3GB, which are the next step up the pricing ladder. New York, Both 900-series parts have more CUDA cores than the 1050 replacements, and while the new cards are clocked higher, that mostly makes them equal rather than significantly faster than their predecessors. You pay more for more performance, but which is actually the better value? Since the GTX 1050 Ti is a budget card, I'm limiting testing to 1080p at medium and ultra quality, with 1440p ultra results showing whether there's room for the card to reach higher in some games.