Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050 both launching October 25

Nvidia just announced both the 1050 GTX Ti and GTX 1050 Pascal mainstream graphics cards, with a final price to punish Brexit Britain.

We have been investigating, speculation and rumors about the new Pascal cards at low prices for a while, but it takes up just a week before its release worldwide by Nvidia to officially announce two new cards.

Both the GTX 1050 Ti and slightly weaker GTX will be launching 1050 on the same day, Tuesday October 25, 2016, and gives us our first taste of how the rates Pascal graphics architecture at the lower end of the spectrum of game . We are expecting the performance levels around GTX 960, and sit somewhere between competing Radeon RX 460 and RX 470 GPU.

AMD should be fairly confident that your RX 470 has the measure of the new 1050 GTX Ti because they are reportedly dropping the price of its second level Polaris GPU to try to cannibalize sales that would otherwise have gone green. They are not, however, will be able to get as low as $ 139 and $ 109 price points dollar Nvidia have set for the GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050, respectively, and at the time of writing prices RX 470 are still in the clouds.

However, with UK prices starting from £ 139 and £ 115 for the new GeForce cards, it is clear that the current economic and cultural issues in Britain are having detrimental effects on the cost of improving our machines not only in Football Manager 2017 our careers. A straight dollar conversion of the 1050 GTX $ 109 price would make a GPU £ 89 in the UK, but it clearly will not happen.

Nvidia are not pulling any of his antics Founders Edition with 1050 GTX and GTX Ti 1050 cards though, which is good news on the price front. Unfortunately this means that cover modern look in the photo at the top of the page is just a render and never likely to be seen in the flesh. Shame.

Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti specs

	Nvidia GTX 1050         Ti	Nvidia GTX 1050
GPU	GP107	GP107
Lithography	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET
Transistors	3.3bn	3.3bn
Chip size	132mm2	132mm2
Boost clock	1,392MHz	1,455MHz
Base clock	1,290MHz	1,354MHz
CUDA cores	768	640
Memory Capacity	4GB GDDR5	2GB GDDR5
Memory bus	128-bit	128-bit
TDP	75W	75W
Price	$139	$109

The new GPU Nvidia GTX GP107 used for both Ti and GTX 1050 1050 are the two new chips using a manufacturing process slightly different than the previous Pascal silicon. The GPU new, as reported in August, they are based on Samsung 14nm process instead FinFET design 16nm FinFET TSMC used for the rest of the range. Whether that adds more efficiency to the GPU it is up for debate, as is whether the difference between 14nm and 16nm lithography is different from anything marketing numbers.

Still, the Pascal architecture is super efficient anyway, on the basis of the promises made by the previous generation of chips Maxwell, and the two new cards swinging a TDP of 75W neither has to operate with connectors feeding additional PCIe. Both Ti and GTX GTX 1050 1050 are able to run just drinking juice from the same connection on the motherboard.

For me, this is the most important part of the equation for the new Nvidia cards; which makes them as easy as dropping an update on a new memory cartridge. All you have to do is drop the card into a free PCIe slot and you're good to go for 1080p 60fps games at decent settings. Means any off-the-shelf PC can be almost instantly became a gaming platform at an incredible and so easy to price an improvement already exists in PC games.

Unfortunately, there will always be higher cost, overclcocked-factory cards require additional energy to help your boost clock speed and justify their premium. Standard cards can still be quite effective overclockers, but if they can match the 2GHz clockspeeds Nvidia has promoted for the OC version has not yet been seen.

In any case, it is these cards which are the real murderers of the console. Nvidia is currently estimating 52% of game developers list the PC as a platform for lead - which is almost twice the number of unique commit to any console. So PC gaming is huge and growing and relatively powerful hardware like this having problems cost and complexity of the platform that trend can only continue.