Sunday, November 27th 2016
MSI Gives the GTX 1050 Low-profile Treatment
MSI announced a low-profile GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card (model: MSI GTX 1050 2GT-LP). Based on an identical board design to the company's low-profile GTX 1050 Ti graphics card, this card features a GeForce GTX 1050 chip running at NVIDIA-reference clock speeds of 1354 MHz core, 1455 MHz GPU Boost, and 7.00 GHz (GDDR5-effective) memory. The card features 2 GB of GDDR5 memory across the GPU's 128-bit wide memory interface.
The MSI GTX 1050 Low Profile, as its name suggests, features a half-height PCB, and a 2-slot thick cooling solution, with both standard and low-profile I/O shields being included. The cooler consists of a dense copper core aluminium heatsink that's ventilated by a pair of 50 mm fans. The card draws all is power from the PCI-Express slot. Display outputs include one each of dual-link DVI, HDMI 2.0b, and DisplayPort 1.4 connectors. The company didn't reveal pricing.
The MSI GTX 1050 Low Profile, as its name suggests, features a half-height PCB, and a 2-slot thick cooling solution, with both standard and low-profile I/O shields being included. The cooler consists of a dense copper core aluminium heatsink that's ventilated by a pair of 50 mm fans. The card draws all is power from the PCI-Express slot. Display outputs include one each of dual-link DVI, HDMI 2.0b, and DisplayPort 1.4 connectors. The company didn't reveal pricing.
13 Comments on MSI Gives the GTX 1050 Low-profile Treatment
Especially the 480, pulling as much power as a 1070, is far too power hungry.
The only card I can think of that was low profile and higher then typical specs was the 7850 LP edition, which was 256 bit. But that card was Japanese only, ridiculously expensive before shipping costs, and didnt last long in the market. There is a reason nobody makes these cards, very very few people are looking to buy them.
Looks to me like the shield is attached at the top & bottom by 1 screw each into the pcb, and the 2 stud bolts from the VGA port connecter shield....
And the one time a company did, with the 7850, nobody bought it. There is simply not a market for such a GPU. It's expensive, a engineering nightmare, and doesnt sell, ergo, nobody makes them.