NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 slated for mid-October

Hot on the heels of the now-confirmed NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, a new GPU from NVIDIA has appeared. Instead of being yet another GPU with irresponsible levels of performance, this GPU is targeted at a budget range, and if the rumors are to be trusted, coming out very soon by mid-October.

The new GPU is allegedly codenamed GP107-400, and features the exact same number of CUDA cores as the previous generation Maxwell 2.0 based GTX 950 featured, while being clocked higher. With the gains gotten from the new Pascal architecture and jump to the 16nm FinFET manufacturing process, the GTX 1050 should be a great deal faster than the GTX 950. The GeForce GTX 1050 is also expected to feature 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM running at 7 Gbps, fed over a 128-bit wide memory interface.

What makes the GeForce GTX 1050 even more interesting is that it has a suggested TDP of 75W. That means that NVIDIA can do away with the PCIe power connectors on this card, but of course AIBs are free to add power connectors to feed higher clocked GPUs if they desire. Power wise, the GeForce GTX 1050 is set to go head to head against the AMD Radeon RX 460, but performance wise may see it slot somewhere above the RX 460 and below the RX 470, with highly overclocked AIBs possibly nipping at the heels of RX 470 cards. Pricing will definitely determine if gamers on a budget pick their next card from the green camp or the red camp, but given NVIDIA’s current track record, we may see a card that is marginally costlier than the card it outperforms slightly, making for a really close fight.

SOURCE: BenchLife.info

Pokdepinion: With the value for money of these lower end cards, it makes it very much easier for gamers on a budget to afford a gaming rig that can play most recent games reasonably well.