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Nvidia's recent Pascal refreshes take focused mainly on the high end of the market, though that's changed in the past month with the GTX 1060 hitting the $200 price betoken. Now, specs of the upcoming GP107 / GTX 1050 have supposedly surfaced. While all such information must exist taken with a grain of salt, the specs make provisional sense.

Co-ordinate to BenchLife, the upcoming function will be a 768:64:32 core (that's cores, texture units, and ROPS). That's still a pregnant pace down from the GTX 1060, which offers a base of operations configuration of 1280:80:48 at 6GB and 1152:72:48 at 3GB. The GPU reportedly has a 128-scrap memory path for 112GB/s of memory bandwidth altogether.

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The GTX 1050 is a very dissimilar card than the RX 470 it would presumably compete against. AMD'south quaternary-generation GCN is a much wider beast, with a 2048:128:32 configuration. Historically, the GTX 1060 – 1080 accept all wielded a meaning clock speed deviation over GCN, but that may not be the case hither — the maximum boost clock for the GTX 1050 is supposedly 1380MHz, and while Pascal GPUs with Nvidia Boost 3.0 tend to hit much higher clocks, we dubiety the GPU is designed to spring to 1900MHz+ from a 1380MHz maximum boost. AMD's RX 470 has 211GB/due south of retentiveness bandwidth — on newspaper, it'south significantly stronger than the GTX 1050 in multiple respects.

To-date, still, Pascal has compensated for seemingly weak paper specs with extremely strong real-globe operation. The GTX 1060 we accept in-house, for example, is virtually identical to the GTX 980'south performance despite having markedly less memory bandwidth, fewer shader cores, and fewer texture units.

GP107 supposedly won't drop until mid-October, which gives both AMD and Nvidia some time to fix their pricing and availability problems. As things stand up, a GTX 1050 at $150 would compete against the RX 460 4GB rather than the RX 470 4GB — and that'southward non a comparison that would end well for AMD. By the same token, nonetheless, we're pretty tired of the limited relationship betwixt what AMD and Nvidia say a GPU will sell for and what information technology actually sells for. Only the GTX 1060 has managed to hit its recommended cost targets within what we consider a reasonable amount of time, and only barely. Both companies demand to shore upwardly their availability and hit their MSRPs, and nosotros're going to treat all launch pricing from both manufacturers equally provisional at best until we see proof they tin keep their word.

The but proficient thing about launch pricing from AMD and Nvidia as of this writing is that prices are slowly creeping towards their official levels. By the fourth dimension the GTX 1050 launches, card prices should be better aligned with where they were supposed to be months ago.