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Guru3D.com » News » Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 (3GB) has a 96-bit memory bus

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 (3GB) has a 96-bit memory bus

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/21/2018 03:24 PM | source: | 52 comment(s)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 (3GB) has a 96-bit memory bus

A little while ago we mentioned that there would be a new SKU released based on the Geforce GTX 1050, a 3GB version of the GeForce GTX 1050. The card should fill the gap between the GTX 1050 with 2GB and the GTX 1050 Ti with 4GB. 

Back then I already mentioned that it would be interesting to see how that would work out memory controller wise. Nvidia just posted the full specs here. As you can see, the 3GB version is a real thing, there, however, is a significant change in the memory controller, it's 96-bit and that is a significant change, low-end and entry-level graphics cards are always very memory deprived in bandwidth. So you gain 1GB more memory, your memory bandwidth will drop by roughly 25% A good thing, however, is that the shader proc count and base clock has been increased a fair bit over the 2GB model.

  

 

Last but not least, very interesting is the fact that you could look at the product as a cut-down 1050 Ti really, as the 1050 3GB gets a bump on Shader processors, now at 768 shader processors (coming from 640 on the 2 GB 1050), straightening things out shaders wise at the level of the Ti model. Well, should we just call this a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with 1GB cut away?

Many thanks, SH SOTH for the news-submit.



Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 (3GB) has a 96-bit memory bus Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 (3GB) has a 96-bit memory bus




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PurSpyk!!
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#5548686 Posted on: 05/21/2018 03:31 PM
Looks like a lot of dud chips getting a new home.

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#5548687 Posted on: 05/21/2018 03:33 PM
Watch the Cuda Cores. It says 768, which means that they use a full 1050Ti with 3Gb Ram!
Edit: Would this GPU be more powerful running older games? The boost clocks would intent this, but you lose memory bandwith or am i wrong?

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#5548699 Posted on: 05/21/2018 03:52 PM
Watch the Cuda Cores. It says 768, which means that they use a full 1050Ti with 3Gb Ram!
Edit: Would this GPU be more powerful running older games? The boost clocks would intent this, but you lose memory bandwith or am i wrong?

The 96-bit wide bus cripples the product. Even a 128-bit bus GPU is dog slow compared to a proper 256-bit bus GPU, etc., even if everything else is equal.

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#5548701 Posted on: 05/21/2018 03:57 PM
Thank you for the fact based informative reporting in this article. I first read this information on another site just minutes before and it was written as though some wildly nefarious action was taking place rather than a specification change as the fact it is. Consumer is aware, specification is public, decision can be made. Lower memory at higher bus width or higher memory at lower bus width on a product that remains a low end product.

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#5548707 Posted on: 05/21/2018 04:18 PM
Wonder how it will fare for upscaling to 4K with madvr.

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