Today, we’ll be taking a look at the Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti OC Edition (4GB GDDR5) graphics card. It’s aimed at the lower end of the market for gamers who are on a budget, but want the latest graphics architecture from Nvidia.
Nvidia has already wow’ed us with their GeForce GTX 1060, GTX 1070 and GTX 1080, but what can the GTX 1050 Ti offer in terms of performance?
The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti uses the same Pascal architecture as found on all of Nvidia’s 10-series. However, it features only 768 CUDA cores, a lower clock rate of 1209MHz, 128-bit memory bus, a lower memory speed of 7Gbps and less VRam of 4GB GDDR5.
Although Nvidia reduced a lot of features on the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, it should be adequate enough to run most games. But don’t expected 4K or 60FPS gaming. Again, I have to remind you … this card is aimed at the entry-level market, so don’t expect and bells and whistles.
After removing the heatsink of the Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, we find Nvidia’s GPU with the markings GP107-400-A1.
Like I said before, Zotac have always produced and sold pre-overclocked graphic cards. And this is no different even for their GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. They’ve bumped it up to 1392 MHz from the normal clock rate of 1290 MHz, that’s an increase of 102 MHz. Boost clock reaches 1506 MHz over the standard boost clock of 1392 MHz.
With an increased clock rate … it should give the Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti an advantage over other GeForce GTX 1050 Ti cards.
Here’s a quick comparison of the GeForce GTX 10-series from Nvidia (default reference specs) …
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GeForce GTX 1070
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GeForce GTX 1060
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GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
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GeForce GTX 980
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Architecture
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Pascal
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Pascal
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Pascal
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Maxwell
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CUDA Cores
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1920
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1280
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768
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2048
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Frame Buffer
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8GB GDDR5
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6GB GDDR5
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4GB GDDR5
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4GB GDDR5
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Base Clock Speed
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1506 MHz
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1506 MHz
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1290 MHz
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1126 MHz
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Boost Clock Speed
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1683 MHz
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1708 MHz
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1392 MHz
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1216 MHz
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Memory Speed
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8 Gbps
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8 Gbps
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7Gbps
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7Gbps
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Memory Bus
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256-bit
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192-bit
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128-bit
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256-bit
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DX12 Support
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Vulkan API
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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