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for the GTX 1050 release I'm doing things a little differently though ultimately the end result will be much the same rather than kick things off with a big benchmark video I'm going to check out the msi partner cards and what will be a more standard graphics card review by this I mean just half a dozen new triple-a titles will be tested I'll also be looking at overclocking temps power consumption and of course Emma size board design this will give us a good idea of what the GTX 1050 series is all about however don't fret we aren't just getting lazy on you guys later this week we'll put together an in-depth head-to-head comparison with the 1052 gig and RX 462 gig graphics cards shortly following that the same head-to-head star comparison will be made with the 1050 Ti and rx for 64 gigabyte graphics cards so there's plenty of budget GPU benchmark battles incoming for now let's see what MSI has in store for us with their GTX 1050 2gig OC arm for those wondering you can find the msi gtx 1050 TI for gigabyte OC video here and steve takes care of that one there's no reference or rather found this edition version of the 1050 so Emma size design should be truly unique msi offers their prestigious gaming x version featuring the twin frozen 6 cooler but here we have what i feel the most sensible options in these base model OC versions here the massive twin frozen caller has been swapped out for a much more compact design which will make installing these new budget graphics cards and even the smallest mini ITX case as possible providing they have dual slot cards the card itself measures just 177 millimeters long though the PCB is just 150 millimeters long disappointingly MSI's added an extra 27 millimeters to the length of this card for no reason overhanging the PCB is a plastic shroud no fans or heatsink so this is an aesthetic choice then at MSI not done this their 1050 would have been the exact same length as the r9 nano the entire card weighs just three hundred and twenty-nine grams and the cooler accounts for less than 60% of that weight including the fan plastic shroud and tiny aluminium heatsink the cooler totals just 193 grams the heat sink itself tips the scales at 118 grams and measures just 95 millimeters long 9 too-tall and eighty millimeters thick yep it's a baby knowing all this it would be interesting to see how thermal performance checks out and how loud the card gets under full load under the cooler we find the EDB DGP 107 die sporting 640 cuda cause along with that we have four gddr5 memory chips made by hynek's that operate at a base frequency of 1750 megahertz by default the GTX 1050 doesn't require an external six pm PCIe connector so for this model MSI has decided not to add one they've also stuck with the basic three plus one power phase design though this should be more than enough to keep this 75 watt TDP card happy around at the i/o end we finally DisplayPort 1.4 HDMI 2.0 and dual link DVI output these outputs should have most users well covered and all three can be used simultaneously if need be nvidia has set the default clock specifications for the GT x 1050 at 1350 for megahertz at the base clock and 1555 megahertz for the boost clock Emma sighs beefed up these frequencies at add by pushing the base to 1400 and four megahertz resulting in a boost frequency 1518 megahertz this is a four percent overclock so we aren't expecting huge improvements here for testing our trusty little core i3 test system has been used and we feel this is a more sensible way to test sub $200 graphics cards so I guess the only question that remains is how does this entry-level $110 Pascal graphics card perform I'm glad you asked benchmarking was often kicked off with battlefield 4 so it's fitting we continue that tradition with the latest version battlefield 1 for testing was stuck with the DirectX 11 API for now there's still a few strange bugs the DirectX 12 that heavily impact frame time and minimum frame rates using the ultra quality settings at 1080p the MSI GTX 1050 was good for 49 fps this made it just 2 FPS faster the 950 and 6 FPS slower than the 960 interestingly it was 14 fps faster than the rx 460 a 40% performance advantage and in videos favor here as an AMD favorite we thought Deus Ex mankind divider would be interesting to include using the medium quality settings at 1080p the 1050 average is 33 FPS meanwhile the RX 460 was good thirty-six FPS making in videos new budget GPU around eight percent slower doom using Vulcan is another AMD special though we have some very interesting results here using the ultra quality preset the 1050 crushes the rx 460 with ease even at 1080p doing really requires at least a three gigabyte frame buffer however in videos Pascal memory compression technology seems to get them out of trouble here and allows the 1050 to pull well ahead of the 2gig rx 460 I'd say this is a pretty disappointing result for AMD here Gears of War 4 is one of 2016's most impressive game releases on PC so it was a title we had to include here the 1050 roughly matches the old 950 which is nobly impressive that said this did make it 15% faster than the RX 460 sadly mafia 3 is one of the worst triple-a titles to be released this year boiled down it's just a horrible console port still the game does have a large fan base and it was just recently released so we decided to include it if you do want to play mafia 3 with these entry level gaming GPUs be prepared to load up the low-quality preset even with the lowest quality settings enabled at 1080p the 1050 was good for just 41 FPS on average that said this did make it 24 percent faster than the rx 460 next up we have Mirror's Edge catalyst and here the 1050 average roughly 60 FPS using the medium quality settings this mentor was 18% faster than the rx 460 which just touched on 50 FPS for the average frame rate overwatch might not be the most demanding game but it is epically popular in a heap of fun to play so naturally we included it both the rx 460 and GT x 1050 had no trouble delivering highly playable performance at 1080p using the ultra quality settings that said the 1050 was 34% faster quantum break is a 2016 release that's had a rough road since hitting steam the gameplay is pretty well though DirectX 12 support has been lost the GTX 1050 managed to stay above 60fps and our test using the medium quality settings with an average of 68 fps it was a whopping 45 percent faster than the arcs 460 when it came time to overclocked the GTX 1050 we maxed out the power Limor and got to it the end result was a 100% stable base frequency one cow and five hundred seventy-five megahertz with the boost clock a 1689 megahertz however went gaming the core clock speed fluctuated between 1840 in 1860 megahertz the memory is also boosted from seven gigabits per second to 7.5 gigabits per second this overclock increased performance in Gears of War 4 by 7% taking the average frame rate from 54 fps to 58 fps the same overclock was enough to boost performance and Deus Ex mankind divided by 9% allowing the msi 1050 to match XFX is our x4 62 gigabyte card here we see our core i3 test system consumed just 115 Watts when configure with the GTX 1050 pretty incredible stuff this means the temperature uses slightly less power than the 750 Ti or delivering considerably more performance even with that tiny heating strapped on the GP 107 die this MSI model never exceeded 66 degrees in our game test that result in itself is surprising enough what's even more surprising is the fact that the card was virtually silent under load efficiency really is king in the geforce gtx 1050 is proving this once again as promised it delivers very playable 1080p performance in the latest titles using respectable quality settings having now seen how the 1050 handles itself we aren't surprised AMD made the pricing adjustments that it did over the weekend that said how does the 1050 stack up against the RX 460 this revised price point let's take a look now and find out as you can see even at $100 the RX 462 gigabyte struggles against gtx 1050 costing around 14% more on a cost per frame basis it's interesting to note that although much slower than the RX 470 the 1050 matches the value of aim DS mid range contender and its new 170 dollar MSRP based on the games we tested the RX 462 gigabyte card would need to retail for just $85 to roughly match the cost per frame the new GT x 1050 there was one instance with the RX 460 was seen to be faster that instance being Deus Ex mankind divided doom using Vulcan was another game where we expected AMD to come out on top interestingly whereas the 2 gigabyte vram buffer kills off the RX 460 it doesn't hamper the gtx 1050 s performance nearly much as we expected the 1050 is also incredibly efficient even so it was hard to believe that our core i3 test system was belting out almost 100 FPS Nova watch while consuming a little over 100 watts for the entire system MSI is little 1052 GOC card also managed to run reasonably cool which was surprising given the tiny heatsink the car was also surprisingly quiet even under full load the fact that you can slot this thing into pretty much any system with a pci u x 16 slot it's amazing as well overall the GTX 1050 is an exciting entry-level GPU and graphics cards like the MSI GTX 1050 to do see a really going to ignite budget PC gaming AMD's moved to discount the RX 460 was smart and I'm keen to see how the two compare when testing over 20 of the most recent games for now the future of PC gaming looks bright what do you guys think is the duty x 1050 what you've been waiting for let me know in the comments I'm your host Matt as always or at least sometimes cheers guys for joining me for another episode of hardware unbox - those of you that already support the channel thank you so much it's truly appreciated and to those of you that would like to support the channel directly I do have Amazon links and a patreon link in 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