GeForce GTX 1050 3GB review

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/06/2018 12:17 PM [ 32 comment(s) ]

Nvidia recently released a new entry-level SKU into the market, a GeForce GTX 1050 with 3GB graphics memory. In this review, we'll confirm if this product really is a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, with less memory. If so, that might make these cards an interesting and attractive product to purchase as it has a little more oomph under that hood.

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-Tj-
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Posted on: 07/06/2018 05:34 PM

Pure curiosity and nothing else, but why do many people still have a fascination for single slot solutions?

I mean from a practical point of view really it doesn't make any difference as all mobos are designed for dual-slot. Next to that dual-slot will cool better and offer improved acoustics. I mean you can argue that it could look nicer, but even that is debatable. Also, you'll have more display outputs with dual-slot.

Or is it just a grasp back to the good old times and we're all getting older and grumpy

I would use single slot only for physx and that would be ideal, don't have room for primary 2-3 slot + another 2slot.

airbud7
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Posted on: 07/06/2018 05:37 PM

I think GPU cards have become too big, too heavy, too power hungry.

What? they were getting smaller and faster...I have a gigantic hd 6870 that is slower than a little tiny gtx 1050
a cheap 1050ti or 1060/3GB can outperform a xbox1 easy...it used to take more$

But yeah^ ...1080ti is the Big King Now.

schmidtbag
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Posted on: 07/06/2018 05:57 PM

What? they were getting smaller and faster...I have a gigantic hd 6870 that is slower than a little tiny gtx 1050
a cheap 1050ti or 1060/3GB can outperform a xbox1 easy...it used to take more$
I wouldn't consider that a fair comparison. The 6870 is nearly 8 years old, and XB1 is 5 years old (weird to think about). Transistors and processor architectures themselves may be getting smaller and faster, but power envelopes are being pushed to extremes. For example, the HD 7970 is (to my knowledge) the oldest consumer-grade single-GPU AIB that features 2x 8-pin power connectors. If you include dual-GPU AIBs, I believe the GTX 490 is the oldest. The trend doesn't seem to be dying down.

Celcius
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Posted on: 07/06/2018 08:40 PM

I'll answer that question with one of my own. "Why do motherboard manufacturers insist on placing the sole PCIe x1 slot on many mATX boards below the PCIe x16 slot instead of above?" (As schmidtbag, quite correctly, points out.) I'd offer that all motherboards are not designed for dual-slot, if that means you're losing a PCIe slot as a result of using a dual-width graphics card. I think the buying public has just become too complacent in accepting this situation, and, as a result the engineers don't have any motivation to change it.

XFX was/is producing a 4Gb single-slot RX 560 that proved to be a life-saver for a co-worker when his on-board Realtek NIC decided to go on permanent holiday. He was able to install a 1Gbit PCIe x1 Intel NIC just below it. Since the 560 replaced an older two-slot GTX 750, it turned out to be a step-up in graphics and networking performance for him. I'd like to find one of those single-slot XFX 560's myself, but they seem impossible to locate. I've seen a few on eBay, but the sellers are asking fifty million dollars...

Dimitrios1983
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