Monday, January 9th 2017
GIGABYTE Unveils Low-Profile GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050 Graphics Cards
GIGABYTE today unveiled low-profile GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050 graphics cards. The two cards are based on a common board design, featuring a half-height PCB that's 16.7 cm long, and a dual-slot cooling solution, with a monolithic copper-core aluminium heatsink, ventilated by a single fan, and yet come with minor factory-overclocked speeds. The GTX 1050 Ti low-profile card ships with out-of-the-box clock speeds of 1303 MHz core, and 1417 MHz GPU Boost (vs. 1290/1393 MHz reference); while the GTX 1050 Low-profile ships with 1366/1468 MHz (vs. 1354/1455 MHz reference). Both cards rely on the PCI-Express slot for power, and feature two HDMI 2.0b and one DisplayPort 1.4 connector, in addition to dual-link DVI. The company didn't reveal pricing.
37 Comments on GIGABYTE Unveils Low-Profile GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050 Graphics Cards
- the default voltage is way to high and the card never reaches the full boost under max load. If I undervolt it for ~100 mV it stays at the full boost clock and it's stable
- the 1% overclock over the reference clocks is a joke
The worst part of the card are the fans:
- they buzz when they are spinning up from idle. If you are browsing the web and scrolling it's like having a beehive inside your PC
- the most recent available bios has even worse fan curve profile than the default and as an bonus, the card runs much hotter with it
I owned their HD 7750 before and it was quiet, fast and a great overclocker, but their RX400 series build quality is just plain awful.
Also RX 470 cards are outselling the 3GB 1060 by 2:1 here. The RX 480 isn't doing as good - sales barely equal the 6gb GTX 1060. If AMD would drop prices a little bit the 480 would sell better.
The 460 doesn't sell very well here. People favor the cheaper GTX 750 or the faster GTX 1050 (non-ti). The 460 should have been either faster, or cheaper. The 470 is much, much better. I bought a PowerColor RedDragon V2 4GB 470 for my guest gaming PC, and not only is it quiet (despite the questionable cooling solution), it's also very cool and easily matches the GTX 970 in most games (surpassing it in DX12 / vulkan).
I do agree that the 460 is a joke, but I have the same opinion of the GTX 750, the 960 and the 1050ti. The 750 is too slow for my taste, and it never dipped under 150 euro until this summer (in my area at least). The 960 is way too slow for what it costs. It's direct competitor, the 380x being faster (a lot faster in some games) while costing the same. As for the 1050ti - would you believe there's models that cost almost the same as a 3gb 1060 / 4gb rx 470 in my country? And those are much faster cards - up to 50% faster! In fact there's an Asus model selling for 215 euro, while the much faster afformentioned Powercolor RedDragon V2 sells for 208 euro in the same store... (I got it on sale for Christmas for 184 euro)
Pain in the ass for those of us with Lone Industries cases.
I kind of understand AIBs pain for removing dvi port, which is dual link dvi adapters costs arm and leg.
But yeah of course card would be better without that relic dvi connector. Without DL-DVI as a standard in the first place that would be a case, just add cheap dp2dvi adapter like there were dvi2vga adapters and be done with it.
NB: I'm discounting the $300 Korean specials because of how small that particular market is compared to the global market of >1080p60 monitors).