Leaked GTX 1050 specs unveil a Pascal card primed for 1080p

By Darren Allan

Nvidia’s line-up of Pascal-based desktop graphics cards will soon be complete with the release of the GeForce GTX 1050, and the specs of this low-end model have just been leaked.

It’ll be based on the GP107 GPU and according to the leak from Chinese site Benchlife, the GTX 1050 will run with a clock speed of 1316MHz with boost to 1380MHz, and 768 CUDA cores with 4GB of GDDR5 memory on board clocked at 1752MHz.

The card will boast a pixel fill rate of 42.1 GPixel/s, a 128-bit bus and a bandwidth of 112.1GB/s. That is if the GPU-Z screenshot displayed by the tech site is in fact genuine, of course.

Power (and price) efficient

TDP is expected to weigh in at 75W, so it’s nice and frugal as you might expect, and shouldn’t need to be plugged into your PSU.

Of course, we’ve already seen the launch of the GTX 1080 and 1070, followed by the more wallet-friendly GTX 1060 – and most recently, a few weeks ago, a cut-down version of the 1060 which has 3GB of video RAM (half the amount of the vanilla version) along with slightly less CUDA cores and a more affordable price still.

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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming