Nvidia reveals GTX 1050/1050 Ti: Pascal on a budget

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Nvidia has finally revealed its next-gen GPU play for the budget segment, with the upcoming October 25th release of two graphics cards - the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti. We're still waiting for UK pricing, but at $109 and $139 respectively, the green team is clearly taking aim at AMD's Radeon RX 460.
The new cards are based on an all-new Nvidia processor based on its Pascal architecture, codenamed GP107. In its fully enabled form - as seen in GTX 1050 Ti - we get 768 CUDA cores, boosting up 1.39GHz. The 640 core GTX 1050 is based on a pared back version of the same processor, its reduction in shader count mitigated slightly by a higher boost clock.
TDP is limited to 75W, meaning that both cards do not require additional PCI Express power inputs - just like the RX 460, GTX 750 Ti and indeed a limited quantities of GTX 950s - but this appears to have had an impact on boost clocks. Other Pascal cards operate at around 1.8GHz in gaming workloads, overclocking to 2GHz. At the 1.4GHz ballpark, clearly GTX 1050 and Ti are going to be a lot slower.
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