Gigabyte Geforce Gtx 1050 Ti Oc 4gb Gddr5 128 Bit Pcie Review

At present that the dust has settled from the announcement of the all-new, upkeep-minded GeForce GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti graphics chips, one of the higher-finish video cards of this new wave has landed on our test demote. Made by Gigabyte and dubbed the "GeForce GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming 4G," at $169.99 this is a premium card amongst upkeep models. That may sound like an oxymoron, merely hear the states out.

This Gigabyte card is launching at a $169.99 MSRP, which is $thirty more than than Nvidia'south $139.99 MSRP for "stock" or basic versions of the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. That puts this specific Gigabyte card into the same crude pricing tier as AMD's Radeon RX 470 cards, of which we've tested one (the PowerColor Ruby Devil Radeon RX 470) and accept more than in the hopper. Nvidia was generally pushing the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in its launch announcement, since it's the slightly higher-spec of the new GTX 1050-serial cards, versus the vanilla GeForce GTX 1050. So it's not a surprise that the first card we're getting our grubby mitts on is one of the higher-cease GTX 1050 Ti models, since card makers tend to want to put their best silicon foot forward. (That said, we have a couple of GeForce GTX 1050 non-Ti cards on the bench right behind it, and we'll include one of those in the discussion here, as well.)

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This item model is the highest-end of Gigabyte's GeForce GTX 1050 Ti offerings at launch, with the company besides offer several similar-looking only lower-spec GTX 1050 Ti models, including a GTX 1050 Ti WindForce OC and the straight-up GTX 1050 Ti OC 4G. They all have $.25 and pieces from the G1 Gaming, only this card is the only i with all of the goodies: RGB lighting, i-click overclocking, a binned GPU (to, in theory, maximize overclocking and stability), first-class cooling, and even a metallic backplate. All those bits and bobs are what make it $30 pricier than a run-of-the-manufacturing plant GTX 1050 Ti. Gigabyte's lower-end models, meanwhile, ditch the fancy lights, metal backplate, and higher clocks of the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Gaming G1, at commensurately lower prices (for example, $ten less for the GTX 1050 Ti WindForce OC, and $xx less for the GTX 1050 Ti OC 4G).

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So, nosotros know the GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming is the pinnacle-shelf function for Gigabyte's GTX 1050 Ti cards, simply can it be the alpha dog exterior Gigabyte's own yard? Let's examine each of these premium features.

Design and Features

The first premium characteristic on this card is the now-expected (on a fancy card, at least) RGB lighting, which on the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Gaming G1 translates to two LED-lit areas on the side of the carte. One is a Gigabyte logo; the other lets you know the fans take stopped spinning. The lights tin can be configured to stay on all the time, flash, breathe, or wheel through various colors.

For your hard-earned cash, you also go a and then-called "binned" graphics processor (GPU). What that means: Gigabyte samples all of the graphics chips at its disposal and sorts the ones that it verifies tin can accomplish a sure clock speed into a dissever premium "bin." Gigabyte calls this process "Gauntlet Sorting," and while that'south marketing-speak, it betters your chances of getting the most possible overclocking power out of your card.

You also get a metal backplate, which until recently was a luxury detail on high-cease cards; with big, brawny cards, they act as stiffeners (due to the cards' length) and as supplemental heat sinks. That said, a backplate seems a fleck out of place and unwarranted on a mid-size, under-$200 card such equally this one, like fancy rims on a Toyota Corolla. Still, it carries cachet (remember, this is the side of the video card you actually see in a windowed case), and we won't deny that it does look cool, and so it'southward on the Gaming G1 as a manner to assistance designate this as a premium production.

Yous also get Gigabyte's patented WindForce 2X air libation, a one-click overclocking characteristic, and higher clock speeds overall than Gigabyte's other GTX 1050 Ti GPUs. Nosotros're not accountants, merely that sounds similar a pretty decent dollop of special sauce for $30. That said, this under-$200 segment of the graphics-card marketplace is extremely price-sensitive, and Gigabyte'due south several other models we mentioned before (and more), without the lights and backplate, can help you save a few $x bills.

As far as the card itself is concerned, despite its budget pedigree it looks like a college-finish GPU than information technology is, thanks to the features we mentioned, also as the size. It measures 9 inches long, and information technology'south a dual-slot bill of fare. Dissimilar the vanilla designs of the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti that we've seen from some makers (some of which emphasize compact lengths and no required power connector), this carte du jour goes the other mode; it has a six-pin power-supply connector, which is helpful for overclocking only might limit this bill of fare's entreatment for upgrading pre-built PCs with wimpy power supplies. The cooling is provided by a sophisticated dual-fan array that has uniquely shaped fans, and the 2 fans spin in opposite directions to ameliorate airflow and reduce turbulence. The fans besides finish spinning when the GPU is idle for silent functioning, and that handy LED that says "FAN Terminate" lets you know when they are not spinning. Underneath the fans are two copper composite oestrus pipes that make direct contact with the GPU, along with an array of aluminum fins for heat dissipation.

When it comes to clock speeds, this GPU uses and so-chosen "Ultra Durable" components, along with the previously discussed binning process to achieve significantly higher clock speeds than the base-model GTX 1050 Ti cards. For instance, the base spec for the Heave Clock on the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is i,392MHz, only the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming is able to ramp up all the manner to ane,506MHz in "OC mode," which is activated via the one-click overclocking software. When you lot run the software, yous can click i of three boxes to permit the card overclock a little, a lot, or not at all. (The no-overclock choice is actually chosen Eco fashion, every bit it conserves energy, which we found amusing.) Interestingly, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming's base clock in OC mode is the same equally the reference card'southward Boost Clock. At the point where the standard design is clocked to the max, the G1 Gaming is just getting started.

For onboard memory, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming has 4GB of RAM, which is double what yous get with a GTX 1050 non-Ti lath. The memory is GDDR5 and it runs at 7Gbps, which is standard stuff among the current-generation "Pascal" cards, and it is non overclocked. The card has one dual-link DVI port, three HDMI two.0 ports, and i DisplayPort 1.4 port.

The GTX 1050 Ti Gaming 4G includes a three-year warranty and will be bachelor on Oct 25, the day of this review, along with the rest of the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti cards in all their variants. (Nvidia noted that the majority of the GeForce GTX 1050 cards will be a couple of weeks behind the 1050 Ti's.)

The pricing of this Gigabyte carte du jour is an interesting matter. A $169.99 MSRP would accept made it slightly less expensive than a Radeon RX 470 at $180 to $190 (depending on features). Notwithstanding, just every bit we were putting the concluding touches on this review, AMD appear a cost drop on the Radeon RX 460 and RX 470 to counter the nearly-to-launch GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti cards. The Radeon RX 470, which was originally seen in versions $180 and up, is now $169 and upwards. In contrast, versions of the GTX 1050 Ti start at $139 and go up from in that location, and so there is at present but $30 separating the base models of these two GPUs. And when you bring a card similar this Gigabyte one into the mix, which has a $30 premium over the GTX 1050 Ti'southward entry toll, some GTX 1050 Ti and Radeon RX 470 cards can overlap, making them direct competitors.

For what information technology's worth, AMD has likewise dropped the entry pricing of its Radeon RX 460 cards to $99.99 (and upwards) to boxing the $109.99 GeForce GTX 1050. Whereas with loftier-end cards it's a boxing of the Benjamins, hither in the budget space information technology'south dueling Hamiltons.

Software

The software that lets you monitor and adjust the GPU's vitals is chosen "XTREME GAMING ENGINE," and no, our Caps Lock central was not stuck. That'south how it'southward labeled in the software, shouting just how XTREME information technology is.

It lets you lot overclock the bill of fare, monitor its status, and conform the fan and LED properties. It's easy to utilize, though the numbers it displays in the interface are way too minor for our tastes—but nosotros're getting alee of ourselves. Here's the main window...

You'll discover a greyness polygon on the far correct side of the brandish labeled "monitor." If you click it, y'all'll see a bunch of graphs slide out that display clock speed, card temperatures, and more than.

The problem with this software is that it'south huge; the UI takes upwardly a lot of screen space. Yous don't really need to monitor these things while your organization is idle, and information technology'southward interesting to look at for overclocking, but it would be prissy if there were a compact view to show these stats while you're working.

Anyway, the main window lets you adapt the carte's clock speed, voltage, power limit, and memory speed. Yous adjust each aspect with a simple slider, but as you can come across, the numbers displaying the values are actually small, making it difficult to apply.

The overclocking tab presents you with iii presets to click on, for overclocks ranging from none to medium or high. (The terminal two settings are known every bit "Gaming" and "OC.") We actually like the improver of these presets, but we honestly can't figure out why anyone would cull the middle option, since, at least in our experience, it was no trouble for the card to run at the highest OC setting. (Perhaps it might matter if we were to be running the card in a tight small-scale-form-factor chassis.) The software also allows for manual control, which is a nice touch.

The G1 Gaming offers several ways to control the two onboard fans, only this card runs so quietly that nosotros can't imagine anyone noticing a deviation regardless of how it's configured. We never found a reason to turn the fans all the way upward, and information technology's cooled more than adequately right out of the box if our tests and tweaks are whatever indication, but we do appreciate having options. This carte du jour will also auto-halt the fans whenever the GPU is beneath a sure temperature. That's unremarkably about lx degrees C, and so information technology's dead-quiet at idle, and nether load, it's also largely inaudible.

The final tab lets you command the two lights on the side of the carte du jour body. Unfortunately, you tin't control them individually, despite in that location being buttons to do this built into the interface. We sympathise this software is designed for all Gigabyte's products, just we'd have appreciated them at least existence greyed out, as they look clickable but are not. (We're referring to the "select all" button.) You can turn the lighting effects on or off if you want it to be night, which is nice, and Gigabyte presents a few presets such as flashing, breathing, audio flashing (in melody with music), consistent lighting, and double flashing. Most of the flashing effects look pretty cheesy, merely it's all in the centre of the beholder, and, once again, it'southward good to take options. You can choose any LED color you lot like, including typing in the color value manually. Overall, the lighting looks bang-up and we take no complaints near it.

Performance Testing

Equally nosotros've mentioned in our other recent bill of fare reviews, things are in flux these days when it comes to testing GPUs, because the ii emerging technologies that electric current-gen cards are built for are proving difficult to test in their early days.

The first of these is DirectX 12 (DX12), which is just at present coming on the scene. In that location are relatively few existent-globe benchmarks for information technology. Still, DX12 will likely exist the standard graphics API in the future, and this carte was designed to last for a few years, if not longer. And then it'due south important to know if a carte tin handle DX12 well before buying. We tested our Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti Gaming G1 with all the newest DX12-capable games nosotros had on hand, including Hitman (the 2016 edition), Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Ashes of the Singularity. (We won't discuss the last game's results in DX12, as several of the GTX 1050 Ti's competitors did non run it properly at DX12 and Standard settings, but kudos to the Gigabyte bill of fare for completing our tests.) We tested a load of games using DirectX 11, also, because that API dominates, and it will still be in broad use for at to the lowest degree another year, probably much longer.

The 2nd technology that's difficult to test at present is support for virtual reality, or VR for short. At this writing, there are 2 major competing VR headsets, in the grade of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, with more coming to marketplace before long, and it's difficult to institute a lone exam that is applicable to all VR scenarios.

Steam has its ain VR benchmark, simply at the time of this writing, it didn't output scores across a simple "Allegiance Score." Mainly, information technology but indicates whether or not your PC is ready to handle VR games on a three-color red/yellow/light-green scale. Since the baseline recommendation for both the Vive and the Rift is a Core i5 processor and a GTX 970 graphics card, the GTX 1050 Ti and the Core i7 CPU in our examination bed would be a deadline combination on this test. With these recommendations in flux as nosotros write this, though, we won't apply the Allegiance Score and the Steam examination as anything to keep.

Futuremark is too working on an upcoming VRMark test, just it was not finalized when nosotros wrote this. We'll have to wait for future, finalized VR benchmarks. Just if you're considering buying a GTX 1050 Ti primarily for VR, you lot'll probable want to footstep up at least to a certified AMD Radeon RX 480 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 to be safe.

And so, on to the benchmarks. Since this is a midrange card at $169.99, nosotros'll be comparison it to all the GPUs we've tested in contempo years from roughly $100 to $200, including the aforementioned AMD Radeon RX 470. (Proceed in listen that the PowerColor model nosotros tested was $30 more expensive than the G1 Gaming at the time of this writing.) Nosotros're as well throwing in some older GPUs, including the GeForce GTX 960 and the GeForce GTX 750 Ti, and so we can come across how far we've come with Nvidia's new "Pascal" compages in comparison. And of course, the Radeon RX 460 (a PowerColor sample) and Radeon RX 480 (AMD'due south reference card) take been thrown into the crucible for good measure.

Also in the mix is an MSI GeForce GTX 1050 card that nosotros accept tested and are in the process of reviewing.

We'll concentrate on the Radeon RX 470 and how the GTX 1050 Ti measures up to it, simply nosotros can say, in general, that the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti beat the PowerColor Ruby Dragon RX 460, a $99 to $109 carte du jour, decisively, and it is a major footstep up from a GeForce GTX 950 and a small-scale one from a GeForce GTX 960. In general, information technology vicious between the GeForce GTX 960 and GTX 970 cards nosotros tested on most tests, which is not bad visitor for a $169 card, though it was usually much closer to the GTX 960 than the GTX 970.

3DMark (Burn down Strike)

We started off our testing with Futuremark'southward 2013 version of 3DMark, specifically the suite's Fire Strike subtest. Burn Strike is a synthetic test designed to measure overall gaming functioning, and Futuremark has expanded Fire Strike nowadays into three subtests of increasing difficulty. Permit's wait at the bones exam (known simply as "Burn Strike") since these are midrange and entry-level GPUs.

Given the relatively close price parity between the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti R1 Gaming 4G and the PowerColor Reddish Devil Radeon RX 470 we tested, we're most interested in seeing how these two cards specifically compare with one some other. In this test, it was an absolute drubbing in favor of the Radeon RX 470, which was 38 percent faster. Nosotros also saw in this test that the GTX 1050 Ti was 12 percent faster than the slightly overclocked MSI GeForce GTX 1050 we accept on the test bench.

Tomb Raider (2013)

Here, we fired up the 2013 reboot of the archetype title Tomb Raider, testing at the Ultimate particular preset and three resolutions.

Though the midrange GPUs struggled with this game'due south Ultimate settings at resolutions beyond 1440p, the RX 470 was still able to outpace the GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming by well-nigh 20 percentage, making it non a very close fight.

Sleeping Dogs

Next, we rolled out the very enervating real-world gaming benchmark exam built into the title Sleeping Dogs…

Things tightened up a bit in this examination, with only a 10 percent delta separating the two GPUs at 1080p. The Radeon RX 470 still held the advantage, merely both GPUs were quite close to one some other using the Farthermost graphics preset. The gap was a niggling wider at 2,560x1,440, with both GPUs delivering frame rates bordering on the cusp of playable, reinforcing their roles equally strictly best-for-1080p GPUs.

Bioshock Infinite

The popular championship Bioshock Infinite isn't overly enervating, but it'due south a pop one with stellar proficient looks. In its built-in criterion program, we set the graphics level to the highest preset (Ultra+DDOF)…

In this test, the Red Devil Radeon RX 470 trounced the GTX 1050 Ti by more than 20 frames per 2d at 1080p. It held the exact same advantage at two,560x1,440, likewise, and it was actually quite playable, making these GPUs perfect for people wanting to run older games at college resolutions.

Hitman: Absolution

Side by side up was Hitman: Absolution, which is an aging game just still pretty difficult on a video carte.

This test was quite interesting, every bit we see the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 470 and Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming running neck-and-neck. Traditionally we'd expect the Radeon RX 470 to excel (thanks to its wider retentiveness interface, since we're running this test at a cruel 8x MSAA), but the GTX 1050 Ti carte's higher clock speeds were likely able to compensate for this disadvantage. Overall, there's not much to report here as the cards are basically tied.

Far Cry Primal

Next, we moved to a more recent game, released in 2016. Ubisoft's latest open-world first-person hunting game is i of the almost demanding titles we employ, thanks to its lush foliage, detailed shadows, and otherwise incredible environments.

Using the Normal preset, since these are midrange GPUs, we see the PowerColor Radeon RX 470 once once again eating the G1 Gaming'south lunch. This time around, it was a big 25fps faster at 1080p resolution, which volition undoubtedly give Nvidia a headache. Information technology's worth reminding you, though, that the RX 470 we tested is an overclocked card that costs $20 to $30 more than the G1 Gaming. However, with this large of a functioning deviation, that extra cost seems like a bargain.

Ashes of the Singularity

Oxide'due south Ashes of the Singularity is a bit of a divergence as a benchmark, equally it'due south a real-time strategy title, rather than a first-person shooter or a third-person activeness title. Due to the planet-calibration nature of its battle scenes, with hundreds of onscreen tanks, ships, and other implements of future warfare, it can exist extremely enervating at loftier settings. And because of the plethora of rendered units, this game is besides manner more CPU-bound—especially at high settings and resolutions—than virtually other recent games.

In this test information technology looks like the G1 Gaming's overclock was able to win the 24-hour interval, as it really beat the RX 470 for the starting time time past almost 6fps at 1080p. The Radeon is clearly CPU-limited in this test, as it performed similarly at all resolutions. We know it'south not memory-limited, either, because the 8GB Radeon RX 480 experienced the aforementioned bottlenecking.

Grand Theft Automobile V

One of the nearly popular game franchises on the planet, K Theft Auto needs no introduction. Version Five took a lot longer than many expected to land on the PC. But when it finally did, in early 2015, it brought a number of graphical improvements and tweakable visual settings that pushed the game far beyond its console roots.

Note that many of the cards beneath have no confined considering they would not run GTA V at our examination settings. That's a quirk of this game, in that it will automatically bounce down settings if the game perceives it volition non run acceptably at a given mix of resolution and detail settings.

The results of this test were every bit expected, given the price points of the GPUs involved. Since the Radeon RX 470 we tested was $20 to $xxx more expensive than the G1 Gaming, we expected it to be about 10 percent faster, and in this exam it delivered simply shy of 15 per centum higher frame rates. The performance delta was a little wider at the upper resolutions, too, so we can safely say the G1 Gaming is not as fast in this enervating game, though it's however good plenty for 1440p play.

Rise of the Tomb Raider

Lara Croft rises again in the early 2016 iteration of Square Enix'south long-running action franchise. As our hero works to unfold an aboriginal mystery (and reveal the hugger-mugger to immortality) ahead of the ancient and deadly Order of Trinity, she traipses through a slew of complex atmospheric environments, from arid tombs to the frigid Siberian wilderness. A dynamic atmospheric condition organisation, and the complexities of Lara's wind-tousled hair, add to the game'southward visual complexity.

The Radeon RX 470 smoked the GTX 1050 Ti in this test past almost 20fps at 1080p, hitting an impressive 81fps. Over again the advantage held at all the resolutions we tested, so this wasn't a 1080p fluke. Information technology's worth pointing out that the RX 470 was fifty-fifty breathing downwards the neck of the much more expensive RX 480, making it a true overachiever in this criterion.

Hitman (2016)

The newest game in the Hitman franchise finds Agent 47 turning over a new leaf, and embarking on a journey of cocky-discovery as a instructor at a school for underprivileged children. Just kidding, of course; he kills loads of people in this one, only like the remainder. Information technology does offer gorgeous graphics in both DX11 and DX12 varieties, though. Nosotros'll tackle the one-time first.

The G1 Gaming scored an underdog victory this circular, besting the PowerColor Radeon RX 470 by a scattering of frames per second at 1080p. The Radeon had some issues with this test though, as it was actually faster than the GTX 1050 Ti at higher resolutions. And as much as we detest to pelting on the Gaming G1'southward ticker-record parade, the margin of victory was quite small at 1080p

DirectX 12 Testing

It's tough to become any real sense of DirectX 12 performance at this betoken. When we wrote this in October 2016, only a few titles were bachelor with DirectX 12 back up. And running these games, anecdotally we saw no graphical differences between the titles running at DX11 versus DX12 settings. In some instances, titles running under DX12 offered functioning gains, only elsewhere we saw bottom functioning. As well, under DX12, the 2016 Hitman title locked up more once in our testing of competing cards. And we saw a few instances in Ascension of the Tomb Raider in which chunks of the world failed to render.

In other words, you should take the below results with a hunk of salt. DirectX 12 is however in its early on stages, and those developers who take implemented information technology accept yet to smoothen over the cracks. Nosotros'll have to wait some months to say for sure how much of an advantage DX12 offers, and whether it sways things in favor of AMD or Nvidia in any substantive manner. Still, because this is a cutting-border card and DX12 is cut-edge tech, it's worth taking a look at what the GTX 1050 Ti and its competition can practise with Microsoft'southward latest gaming API today.

Rising of the Tomb Raider (DX12)

This sequel to 2013'south Tomb Raider was one of the first AAA titles to offer DirectX 12 back up. We used the preset labeled Medium for testing.

I of the talking points that AMD sent out ahead of Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1050 launch was that its GPUs were better equipped to handle DX12 games due to their cards offering asynchronous compute. Whether or not that comes into play in this title is difficult to say, but we can say definitively that the Radeon RX 470 absolutely crushed the G1 Gaming by wide margins across all three examination resolutions.

Hitman (2016, DX12)

The newest Hitman title also offers upwards a DX12 graphics option in its benchmark that, like Rising of the Tomb Raider, looked identical to our eyes to the DX11 version.

The Radeon held the advantage once once again over the G1 Gaming, this time by a slimmer but notwithstanding substantial 20fps percent at 1080p. That'southward quite a gap, and not one that can be made upwardly by overclocking or a metal backplate. What's even more surprising is that at 2,560x1,440, the Radeon RX 470 stomped the G1 Gaming by 30fps. That's just painful.

3DMark (Time Spy, DX12)

We oasis't tested all of the cards we outline here on the 3DMark Time Spy benchmark however; information technology's a test that was but relatively recently finalized. But we did run information technology on the Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming carte du jour, as well as the PowerColor Ruby Devil Radeon RX 470. We saw a whopping near-fifty-percentage advantage on the part of the Radeon menu, with a Graphics Subscore of 3,513 versus the GTX 1050 Ti'south ii,349.

Overclocking

The overclocking process for Nvidia GPUs is a 2-step process. First, you just run the card as-is out of the box, and the built-in GPU Boost 3.0 technology does most of the heavy lifting. The card will overclock automatically based on how much headroom information technology has according to the card'south temperature and power consumption. Usually, this software does a very good job of achieving a decent overclock that is a flake beyond what Nvidia lists as the "heave clock" for a particular GPU.

With that overclock in place, you tin then utilise the card maker's software to increment the overclock fifty-fifty further. Most GPUs include such software, and for the Gigabyte G1 Gaming it'due south the same all-caps XTREME GAMING ENGINE nosotros mentioned earlier. This utility functions beyond all Gigabyte products, so if you accept 1 of its motherboards, you can apply ane tool to overclock and monitor both pieces of hardware.

Nosotros mentioned the one-click overclocking earlier, in which the software presents you with Eco (no overclock), Gaming (medium OC), and OC (high OC) options. For this GPU in OC mode, it is specified to boost upwardly to i,506MHz, but we found that to be an incredibly conservative judge as out of the box with no piddling we saw the card running at 1,772MHz. That's probably the highest proportional overclock we've seen across a boost clock from an out-of-the-box card, and it'south a testament to just how crazy-well these Pascal-based GPUs can overclock. Nosotros didn't stop there, though, and used the Gigabyte software to finally attain an overclock of 1,911MHz. At this point, we hit a wall, every bit nudging upwards the GPU-clock offset, which usually increases clock speed, resulted in the carte du jour'due south clock speeds going in the opposite direction. We tried adding voltage, but it didn't seem to matter, equally the card would not budge beyond i,911MHz. Information technology also deserves mention that this card ran cool and practically silent at all times, fifty-fifty at its maximum clock speed and under full load. The hottest it got was 64 degrees C, which is quite absurd for a GPU being pushed to its limit.

Conclusion

This being the first GeForce GTX 1050 Ti nosotros've tested, we can't actually draw whatsoever direct comparisons to other GTX 1050 Ti cards yet. But information technology certainly seems like this Gigabyte carte du jour is a adept representation of what this particular model can accomplish at the far limits of the GPU. Even though Nvidia lists the Boost Clock for this card at 1,392MHz, nosotros saw our review unit go all the mode up to 1,772MHz and beyond, so it's quite clearly operating above and beyond what Nvidia considers "typical" for this particular slice of silicon. When you consider that this is too a binned GPU with aplenty cooling, we'd deem this particular model the foam of the crop, or close to it, for the GTX 1050 Ti boards that arriving now. MSI, Asus, Zotac, and others volition have similarly equipped competitors, also, so it'll exist a crowded field before long.

There is little to mutter near with this GPU: Information technology's quiet, overclocks well, has useful software, and offers very good operation. Since it's an Nvidia bill of fare, y'all as well get to apply its GeForce Experience software, K-Sync monitors, and bask the company's frequent driver updates. All in all, it's a solid budget-to-midrange bill of fare for 1080p or fifty-fifty light 1440p play, from summit to lesser.

The but thing? That darned Radeon RX 470 exists. In our tests, it was considerably faster than this Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti card, and with AMD'south terminal-minute price trimming, gamers can't ignore the operation advantage offered by AMD if the prices are within $twenty or $30 of each other.

The problem for Gigabyte, with this card, is that its G1 Gaming is already $xxx more than the base GeForce GTX 1050 Ti's $139.99 MSRP, bringing it correct in line with the prices on base of operations-model Radeon RX 470 cards. Maybe Gigabyte volition somewhen react past lowering its 1050 Ti G1 Gaming's pricing; seeing the G1 Gaming at $150 or thereabouts would boost the value proposition past a whole agglomeration. Also, we are also testing an MSI GeForce GTX 1050 Ti as we write this; it's factory-overclocked, too, and it comes in at a $139.99 MSRP, minus the LED bling and elevation-end touches of the Gigabyte card. So far, information technology'southward proving to be not far off the G1 Gaming menu in performance, so know that the roughly same level of speed is available for under $150 if you lot go with a lesser GTX 1050 Ti bill of fare, possibly even ane of the ones in Gigabyte's own GTX 1050 Ti lineup.

Either fashion, things are nigh to get cerise-hot in the $100-to-$200 video-bill of fare market, and correct at present at least, Team Cerise AMD holds the advantage. This start GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a strong competitor, though, and at the $139.99 MSRP of base-model 1050 Ti cards, the GTX 1050 Ti is going to be proficient enough for 1080p play for many gamers. At $169 for this Gigabyte version of the carte du jour, though, Radeon RX 470 cards like the PowerColor we tested are a very, very strong alternative if you're willing to stretch your budget. And on the flip side, if you need a smallish 1080p-capable card with no power-supply connector, the various GTX 1050 Ti's that emphasize that aspect may be merely what you demand, at sizes and prices that are much more comfy than the $170 to $200 for a top-end GTX 1050 Ti similar the G1 Gaming or a Radeon RX 470.

In the end, information technology all comes down to pricing, PC size, and party loyalty. G-Sync aficionados will have to go with an Nvidia card, of course. For our coin, assuming we had the example space for a larger menu, we'd become with the Radeon RX 470 in this price zone, as it held a commanding pb over the G1 Gaming in most of our tests, making it the clear winner in this match-up. And with 4GB-memory versions of the heavy-hit Radeon RX 480 at $199 finally available (the 8GB versions generally price $230 to $250), y'all can pay only a little bit more than for a lot more performance.

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti G1 Gaming 4G

The Bottom Line

Gigabyte's G1 Gaming is probable i of the finest GTX 1050 Ti video cards available, merely the slightly pricier AMD Radeon RX 470 simply outruns information technology.

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