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excellent so I'm sure we've all been in this situation before you're preparing to go out of town and suddenly an Nvidia package shows up on your door and you have a new graphics card to review this is the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti just launched from Nvidia they sent over this MSI of very inch right here so I guess I have no choice so I was going to say I will do a quick look at the 1050 TI because that's all I have time for but I suppose I'll also be doing a cursory glance at the GTX 1050 since both are not out today the 1050 cost $109 MSRP US Dollars and the 1050 TI is coming in at 139 dollars MSRP let's start out by looking at the specs so both of these graphics cards are based on GP 107 a new GPU in the Pascal family from Nvidia and there's only a slight variance between the 1050 and the 1050 Ti also very sturdy both of these cards and only slightly prone to falling over anyway though apart from being based on GP 107 the 1050 Ti at least has two graphics processing clusters and six streaming multi processors that gives you 768 cuda cores 48 texture units and 32 ROP units the base clock is 1290 and the boost clock is 1392 megahertz although as is the case often with cards in this range manufacturers will often ship them at higher frequencies than when a video gives you for the bass and boost clocks memory clock is 3500 4 megahertz and that gives you 7 gigabits per second of total memory data rate and lastly the biggest difference between these 2 cards is going to be the 1050 Ti has a 4 megabyte frame buffer and the 1050 has just a 2 megabyte frame buffer so that's pretty cut down although both of them are operating on 128-bit memory interface 412 gigabytes per second of memory bandwidth Pascal by the way is 40 nanometer manufacturing process 3.3 billion transistors on the GP 107 and either case and then for display outs on either one you also have the same options of one DisplayPort one HDMI and one dual link DVI which is a nice variety I suppose for card of this caliber now the benefits of the lower power lower cost cards like this is they're often easy to drop into an existing system thanks to the fact that these only draw 75 watts of power which is the same amount of power that's delivered natively through the PCI Express bus neither of these has extra supplemental power connectors so all you got to do is plug in the like in the card hopefully not knock it over I've been doing and it should just work for you pursuing you have you know compatible system and install the drivers and everything like that which is cool now there are like I said a bunch of different variations of this card these from MSI were sent to me directly by Nvidia but I also have been hit up by Asus gigabyte EVGA there's lots of others available there's a ton of even pictures of them out right now and what you're basically going to be seeing is short cards like these right here which you're only going to run in the maybe five to seven inches long range easy to put into small form factor computers and don't take much additional power and then you're also gonna see variants that have our bigger have larger cooling solutions dual fans and possibly also the addition of a PCI Express power connector for additional power which would theoretically give you more overclocking Headroom I didn't have time to overclock these cards but I did run some benchmarks on the 1050 Ti running at the out-of-the-box speeds and I did test this in the system that's right back here that I've recently used in my how to build a computer series rather than the 69 50 X based system up there over there which just would be quite overkill for these cards anyway that system is running on a be 150 pro 4 V motherboard from asrock its micro ATX system I did run all the tests with everything enclosed and whatnot it's on an i5 6500 quad core CPU from Intel 16 gigs of DDR 4 memory from Corsair and I ran all these tests at 1920 by 1080 because for these cards that's really what you should be looking at 1440 and beyond you're probably going to be looking at something a little bit more powerful in order to handle that resolution starting right at though with 3dmark firestrike extreme we hit 33 77 overall on the score 3600 on the graphics 7050 on the physics and 1504 on the combined score 3dmark times pi which is a DirectX 12 test came in at 2379 for the overall score 2272 for the graphics and 3246 for the CPU grand theft auto 5 a very popular game I certainly enjoy playing it myself using the built-in benchmark it got 60 1.9 average frames per second that's using my default settings for the benchmark which includes 2x msaa and pretty all of those extra stuff set to very high when it comes to the extra configuration stuff you can do with the graphics since 60 1.9 in real world was actually ended up being more like 50 to 60 frames per second I found out that just by turning off 2x msaa I was achieving more like 70 to 75 frames per second so easily playable at over 60 FPS with $140 graphics cards so that's pretty nice with most of the eye candy turned on to overwatch is not a very challenging game to play but lots of people are interested in playing this game because it's very popular and also playing it at higher frame rates if you're interested in getting perhaps a higher refresh rate monitor for example happy to say that using ultra settings I hit 100 and 2.8 average frames per second and 83 minimum frames per second so again very playable with this card for the very popular game overwatch csgo again a game I'm imagining lots of people might be interested in this card for again also looking for really high frame rates if you're looking for 144 Hertz or beyond fortunately with all the settings maxed 180 frames per second was in the low range of what I was seeing average was around 190 to 220 frames per second so really high frame rates achievable and you should have no problem playing csgo with this card finally I did try out doom using the Vulcan API again testing at 1080 with ultra settings and I found I was able to hit 60 to 80 frames per second as you can see here in this riveting live gameplay footage as I kill demons and that sort of thing incredibly fun so uh first things first what did I notice about the benchmarks I noticed that for gigs is good for 1080 - gigs not that I've tested this card is not enough at least for the games that I was testing half of the games that I ran used more than two gigs frame buffer in fact I used two point six gigabytes in times by 2.8 gigabytes in doom 3 point 3 gigabytes in GTA 5 which can often be a memory hog as it's loading up your environment it's all around you and that kind of thing temperatures fortunately we're very nice 63 degrees Celsius is what I hit using this card again with everything running at just at the out-of-box speeds fan speed was going in the 45 to 50% range to achieve those temperatures and was not loud at all that's just anecdotal side into sound test officially for this one let's round this video out with some conclusions for the 1050 Ti again the 1050 just arrived and I am not having time to benchmark it so perhaps more on this coming in the future but the 1050 Ti I thought was a really nice performer at 1080 and if you're looking to get into PC gaming having an entry-level graphics card that you can rely on to play games at 1080 and get really decent frame rates even in the higher-end games like GTA 5 and doom this card seems totally capable of that it definitely seems again I didn't do apples to apples comparison but it seems like it's beating out the RX 460 from AMD on their side so given that the RX 464 gig costs 140 bucks right now and you might see that price perhaps drop down a little bit to have it slot in a little bit better against the 1050 Ti on the con side though these are definitely still very much budget video cards for instance if you look at the coup de coeur count 768 CUDA cores on the 1050 Ti and then 640 CUDA cores on the 1050 the 1050 has one less streaming multi processor five instead of six so that's why you get less cuda cores only 40 texture units although you do get a bit higher clock speed with the 1050 13 54 is the based in 1455 is the boost clock memory configuration is the same apart from the actual amount of memory so there you have it I definitely lean much more towards recommending the 1050 Ti just like having that additional memory in there as well as just a little bit more performance at the close to the metal level with a few more cuda cores but don't fool yourself into thinking that these cards are like close to like a gtx 1060 the next step up from Nvidia where you're spending more in the range of $250 they are definitely not the 1060 for example has 1280 CUDA cores not quite double but close to double the amount that this one has in it so you are going to see a pretty huge jump in performance if you're going for a 200 to 250 dollar card versus these which are more in the 100 to 150 dollar range all that said though I think it's nice you can spend about 140 bucks and get yourself really solid 1080 it's out of the 1058 TI i hope this video has helped you guys out and give you a little bit better idea of what to expect if you are investing in this graphics card so leave me a comment in the comment section down below let me know what you think about these GPUs there also be links to these in the video description you can also hit the thumbs up button and let me know if you enjoyed the video while you're down there that helps me out a ton also a link is down there for my store where you can buy t-shirts like this one yes I'm actually wearing one of my t-shirts today so check that out help support the cause thanks for watching guys and we'll see you next time