Today, NVIDIA would announce their brand new GeForce GTX 1050 series graphics cards for budget gamers. The new graphics cards are based on the Pascal core architecture that delivers a leap in gaming performanceover Maxwell based graphics cards along with increased power efficiency.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GeForce GTX 1050 Announced

Both cards, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GeForce GTX 1050 utilize the GP107 GPU. While the announcement is planned for today, both cards won't be available in retail market till 25th of October. The reference solutions will feature a very nice SFF design that won't use any external power connector and would be able to run on an existing power supply with ease.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti – OfficialPrice of $139 US, October 25th Launch

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti features768 CUDA Cores. The core comes packed with 48TMUs and 32 ROPs. The chip is clocked at1318 MHz core and 1392 MHz boost frequencywhich is just arounda 250 MHz jump over the GM107 GPU. The texture fill rate of the chip goes up to 84 GTexel/s (almost twice of GM107).The pixel fill rate is maintained at 41.3 GPixel/s that is a good increase over Maxwell. The card should also feature 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 7 GHz. This gives us 112 GB/s bandwidth along the narrow 128-bit bus interface.

The card will be priced at $139 US which is a really sweet price considering that it only costs $20 more than the Radeon RX 460 yet going to be faster. The card will feature the same TDP as the Radeon RX 460’s Polaris 11 core, coupled with all the enhancements Pascal brings for gamers. This card will be available in various custom models on launch and we can expect those to follow the reference pricing.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 – OfficialPrice of $109 US, October 25th Launch

Moving on to the next variant, we have the GTX 1050. The non-Ti variant features a cut down, Pascal based GP107 core. It has specifications configured at 640 CUDA cores, 40 TMUs and 32 ROPs. It will have a few bits disabled here and there, the clock speeds are maintained at 1354 MHz and 1455 MHz boost clocks. The card will be available in both 2 GBmodels.

Priced at $109 US, this model can be a effective solution against the Radeon RX 460 which has the same price point. The card will also feature a 75W TDP which means no extra power connector would be required. We will see some models not even closing in on the 75W limit while boosting past the reference clock speeds. Display connectors for the reference variants include three DP 1.4a, a single HDMI and a single DVI connector.

NVIDIA GP107 Utilizes Samsung's 14nm FinFET Process Node

One of the major changes that the GP107 GPU gets is the 14nm FinFET node. The chip is manufactured by Samsung and is the only chip in the Pascal lineup to feature a different process node compared to the rest of the lineup. The 14nm FinFET node may be one reason why we are looking at lower clocks on the GP107 GPU compared to the rest of the lineup. But at the same time, these cards are constrained due to their 75W TDP.

The switch to 14nm FF is still an interesting move and we look forward to see the overclocking and power efficiency results of Pascal 14nm process compared to AMD's GCN 14nm process designs.

NVIDIA GeForce 10 Pascal Family