By Darren Allan
If you like gaming on the move, but can’t quite afford to stump up for a notebook which boasts Nvidia’s latest Pascal graphics tech, then listen up: according to leaked benchmarks, the incoming mobile GTX 1050 Ti looks to be a powerful performer – equalling its desktop counterpart, and edging it out in some cases – and hopefully it won’t command too much of a premium.
The GTX 1050 is, of course, Nvidia’s budget end of the 10-series, with desktop cards emerging at the end of last month, but now notebook manufacturers are testing and readying models which use the 1050 Ti – and LaptopMedia.com has apparently got hold of a machine that it put through various benchmark paces.
And interestingly, the mobile version of the 1050 Ti is actually clocked higher than the desktop incarnation, featuring a base speed of 1490MHz with turbo to 1624MHz.
Dicing with desktops
So how fast is it exactly? In comparative tests between the mobile and desktop 1050 Ti, the exciting news was that the mobile version was a tiny bit quicker overall. It was 5% faster on 3DMark’s Fire Strike, and hit pretty much the same scores on Cloud Gate and …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components