A Closer Look

Palit's thermal solution uses two heatpipes and a large heatsink to handle the heat of the GTX 1050 Ti GPU. A few thermal pads are visible here, too, which cool the voltage regulation circuitry. The memory chips are not cooled.


The GTX 1050 Ti KalmX requires no additional power input; all power is drawn from the PCI-Express bus slot. This power input configuration is specified for up to 75 W.


The uPI uP9509 is the same as on several other custom GTX 1050 Ti designs.


The GDDR5 memory chips are made by Micron and are marked with "D9TRZ," which decodes to MT51J256M32HF-60S:A. They are specified to run at 1500 MHz (6,000 MHz GDDR5 effective).


NVIDIA's GP107 graphics processor is the company's first chip to use a 14 nanometer production process. It is also the company's first graphics processor to be made at Samsung and not TSMC. The GPU has a transistor count of 3.3 billion and a die size of 132 mm².