While the world waits for NVIDIA Ampere to finally see the light of day, NVIDIA quietly releases a new budget graphics card – the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB! Here are the full details!
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3GB
Featuring a higher-clocked GP106 GPU, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3GB slides in between the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Price Check), and the “original” GeForce GTX 1050 (Price Check) with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory. There was no official announcement. NVIDIA just slipped it into their GeForce GTX 1050 page.
The new GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is a bit of an oddball. It features the same GPU as the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, clocked higher, so it has 8.5% higher texture and pixel fill rates. Yet, NVIDIA “crippled” it by giving it a 96-bit memory bus, reducing its memory bandwidth by 25%.
The end result – the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3GB has a 8.5% faster GPU than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, but 25% less memory bandwidth than the GeForce GTX 1050. It comes with 3GB of GDDR5 memory though – 50% more than the “original” GeForce GTX 1050.
Is this a response to the launch of AMD Raven Ridge desktop APUs, like the Ryzen 5 2400G or the Ryzen 3 2200G? This is certainly a curious, late addition to the esports graphics card market…
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Specification Comparison
Here is a comparison of the new GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, and both the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Price Check), and the “original” GeForce GTX 1050 (Price Check) with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory.
| Specification |
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti |
GeForce GTX 1050 (3 GB) |
GeForce GTX 1050 (2 GB) |
| GPU | GP106-400 | GP106-400 | GP106-300 |
| Fab Process | 14 nm FinFET | 14 nm FinFET | 14 nm FinFET |
| CUDA Cores | 768 | 768 | 640 |
| Textures Per Clock | 48 | 48 | 40 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| Base Clock | 1290 MHz | 1392 MHz | 1354 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1392 MHz | 1518 MHz | 1455 MHz |
| Texture Fill Rate | 61.9 – 66.8 GT/s | 66.8 – 72.9 GT/s | 54.2 – 58.2 GT/s |
| Pixel Fill Rate | 41.3 – 44.5 GP/s | 44.5 – 48.6 GP/s | 43.3 – 46.6 GP/s |
| Graphics Memory | 4 GB GDDR5 | 3 GB GDDR5 | 2 GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus Width | 128-bit | 96-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Clock Speed | 1752 MHz | 1752 MHz | 1752 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 112 GB/s | 84 GB/s | 112 GB/s |
| TDP | 75 W | 75 W | 75 W |
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