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this video is brought to you by Squarespace the quick and easy way to build a kick-ass website what's up guys so today marks the launch of NVIDIA GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 TI a pair of entry-level graphics cards aimed at gamers on a budget now the GTX 1050 retails for just 109 USD but today we're actually gonna be focusing on the $139 gtx 1050 TI because that's the one nvidia sent me for review yay unlike the existing pascal cards nvidia has chosen not to produce a reference design or founders Edition for these cards instead reserving all their inventory for their board partners so today I'll be testing out the TI model from the team over at MSI with a sub 150 dollar price point the GTX 1050 Ti is positioned to compete directly with AMD SRX 460 and both of these cards are aiming to capture the budget gaming market which has been largely dominated by Nvidia x' Maxwell based gtx 750ti for the last few years now assuming the performance of the 1050 Ti is comparable to that of the rx 460 we can expect it to provide comfortable 1080p gaming at modest quality settings or potentially higher settings for eSports games like dota 2 and csgo from a quick look at the specs we can see the 1050 Ti is using a new ASIC with a GP 107 GPU sporting 768 CUDA cores 48 texture units 32 ROP units a basin boost clock of 1290 and 1392 megahertz respectively a memory clock of 3504 megahertz and four gigs of gddr5 on a 128-bit bus offering 112 gigabytes a second of memory bandwidth also check out that 75 watt TDP the low thermal design power explains why our MSI card here lacks a PCIe connector as it receives all the juice it needs straight from the motherboards PCIe slot granted if we can expect there to be some board partner variants with an add-on PCIe connector for increased stability and Headroom when overclocking the dual slot card itself measures 7 inches long and features a plastic black-and-white open shroud which comes fitted with a single fan that blows downward onto a small pipe 'less heatsink in order to move heat away from the GPU slap all of that onto a black PCB and bam there's your graphics card it's a simple no frills design but it doesn't look half bad for the money spent video outs include one - link DVI hdmi and displayport allowing users to connect three simultaneous displays the display engine however is capable of driving additional panels so board partners will have the option to release models with four or more video outputs should they wish for testing I installed the card in elixir my sexy silver pc which you can check out the video of in case you missed it the rig houses a core i5 6600 K overclocked to 4.5 gigahertz on an MSI z170a gaming titanium with 16 gigs of Corsair Dom plats ddr4 at 3000 megahertz an MSI Afterburner I was able to punch in a 220 megahertz offset on the GPU core clock and 350 megahertz on the memory clock landing our max GPU clock speed at nineteen hundred and eleven megahertz though this quickly averaged out to the low 1700s GPU temps were very tame all the while never topping 63 degrees Celsius in our testing all benchmarks were run in 1920 by 1080 which is the suitable resolution here on Windows 10 with the latest Nvidia press driver version 370 5.5 7 sadly I don't have an RX 460 on hand so I wasn't able to pit both cards head-to-head for this video but let me know in the comments if it showdown between these two cards is something you'd like to see now once we fire up the benchmark slides be sure to keep a close eye on the quality settings at the bottom of the screen as you'll notice I haven't maxed out everything like I usually do this time around I lowered the graphics until we saw playable frame rates in the 50s and up so the quality settings listed represent the highest graphical parameters that the card was able to run at comfortably this should also better depicts the kind of gaming experience where to expect from this card so with all that said here are the gaming benchmarks for our overclocked msi gtx 1050 tia all righty then so breaking down the results here and wrapping things up out of the seven games we tested which were all triple-a titles mind you the GTX 1050 t I was able to run three of them at Ultra settings which is quite frankly more than I was expecting the remaining four games had to be turned down to medium or high settings in order to be playable though we escaped the low presets entirely greatly reducing our risk of console itis now given how the card performed in my intensive suite of titles it's also probably safe to say that all the big eSports games of today will run beautifully on the 1050 Ti at 1080p as well overall this card does pack in some decent value that creates a very low barrier to entry for PC gaming for those short on cash and I would imagine it'll be one of the new popular choices for the modern budget gamer as well I for one am already anxiously awaiting all of those awesome console killers that will be built around this capable little card speaking of capable have you guys heard the good news about Squarespace the site helps you build your dream website quickly and easily just by clicking on things help it's easier than Hotline running minesweeper there's a ton of templates to get you started and from there you can go wild by designing a unique page that looks completely your own if you don't think you need a website you're wrong choosing Squarespace was the best decision of my life and it can be yours too click the link in the description below and use offer code bit whit for a 10% discount to start building a cool website today I would suggest a better alternative to YouTube while you're down there don't forget to toss me a like on this video if you enjoyed it also feel free to check out my store where you can pick up my new super snuggly CPU cooler sweater just in time for those winter ambient temps as I'm cows big wow thank you guys for watching subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and I will see you all in the next video