Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming OC Review

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Conclusion

Conclusion

With the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming (OC edition) Gigabyte brings a nice product to the market. Sure, this is entry level stuff, but they are easy to use cards alright. Currently pricing is off and odd though, but we'll talk about that a bit more in another paragraph. The 1080P resolution is the maximum domain of the focus for products like tested today, WQHD not so much obviously. The 4 GB of graphics memory does make a lot of sense for this product. Realistically the 1050 Ti 4GB is a bit all over the place in the benchmarks, some games behave extremely well where others just caved in. Performance wise I had hoped the 1050 Ti would be much closer to the AMD Radeon RX 470, but it simply isn't. It is a fun card, but is outperformed by that RX 470. A 1050 Ti should cost you 139 USD / 149 EURO as for 169 USD you can pick up that RX 470. Pricing in the EU however is very different, the product as tested today costs €189,- in the EU and $169.99 in the USA.


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Aesthetics

You will have noticed that we tested the G1 Gaming edition from Gigabyte, the reason here is that Nvidia is not releasing reference models. Being a budget card you shave off quite some money, and that typically shows in design. Gigabyte can still offer this fully customized product with Windforce 2X cooler at a very attractive levels. Face it, this card does look nice. It come with that custom design PCB, and is properly cooled with the Windforce 2X cooler and even gets the LED system, it looks good. 

Cooling & Noise Levels

Given the fact that the Gaming G1 / Windforce 2X  models of the 1050 Ti run at under 65 Degrees C, you are going to be hard pressed to hear these products. Up-to 60 Degrees C the cards remain passive, and in the last remaining 5 Degrees C the fans spin at low RPM. These two facts combined make these cards run totally silent at ~33 dBA, you simply cannot hear them. There was not any audible coil noise heard either.

Power Consumption

GP107-A1 Pascal series GPUs are rated as having a 75 Watt TDP under full stress, our measurements show it to be a tiny bit higher in that region. Low wattage cards are hard to measure due to the fact that a PSU gets more inefficient at low power usage. But we tag the 1050 Ti at 75 Watts. Again, we do need to weigh in a little reserve here power supply efficiency wise so it might be a notch lower as well. It remains to be a very low value. 

Gaming Performance

The 1050 Ti with 4 GB of graphics memory can game at 1080P. In DX12 with proper PC gaming quality settings you will run out of power pretty fast though, even at 1080P. But lower image quality a notch and you should be fine. It is a perfect little card for 1080P and the latest Battlefield 1 for example. Overall, in DX11 games we see decent enough performance. With a 4GB model you'll have more breathing space and that helps quite a bit. Obviously not everybody requires or demands 100+ FPS and many people find that 30~40 average FPS is good enough, especially with a GSYNC monitor. 

Tweaking

Overclocking wise things are very simple. The cards can both run and reach a boost frequency of roughly 1900 MHz, the memory subsystem can do 8 Gbps. After these values you'll run into restrictions mostly set by Nvidia. Check out the overclock pages for more precise numbers. 
  

Last Words

We do like the 1050 Ti series, it is a fun 1080P range card that can deal with modern games. For it to become successful whoever it needs to be under the 150 euro marker, and currently this specific card sells at €189,- in the EU and $169.99 in the USA, that is a notch too high to make sense as the competition RX 470 is merely a few tenners way and will offer more value for money, we spotted the HIS RX 470 for example at € 195,- The product and build itself we cannot complain about as Gigabyte did a good job with the 1050 Ti G1 Gaming really. Totally stable and custom builds that run inaudibly with quality components, that's what this is all about. Compared to the 2GB 1050 this  GeForce GTX 1050 Ti it has a little more power under the hood and the 4GB of graphics memory really helps it out dealing with more crispy textures and, well, PC gaming the way it is meant to be played really (no pun intended). 1080P is your domain, but with certain titles you will need to lower image quality. Tweaking wise any and all cards can achieve a stable ~1.9 GHz boost clock frequency. With the graphics memory you should be reaching 8 Gbps (effective data-rate) quite easily. Hey, for the bigger part Nvidia is in control of your tweak, not you. Gigabyte offers a lovely and well designed card totally silent cooler. If you can spot them for the right price, these cards can be little gems for your entry level gaming purpose and both could offer good value.

 - H.

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