GTX 1050

[johnwhelan]

Anyone tried one yet with TANE?

Thanks John

 

[JCitron]

The card is still really, really new so I don't think there are too many out there yet in the Trainzing world.

Here's an interesting statement regarding the 1050

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1050-Ti-Notebook.168400.0.html

If you look at the list on the right, you can see where it exists in relation to other more popular and common cards out there. The new GTX1050 is on the lower end of the high-end cards, and far below the GTX980s, and even the older yet GTX780s, and in line with the GTX970s according to the article. My brother has a GTX970 and it's not a stellar performer overall and tends to get bogged down when encountering complex geometry and lots of textures.

Personally I wouldn't bother with it if the performance is like that of the 970s.

John

 

[PC_Ace]

Not so fast there, JCitron! Check out some of these reviews for the GTX 1050 Ti (the slightly faster version of the 1050 with 4Gb of GDDR5):

http://videocardz.com/63999/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1050ti-reviews

According to benchmarks I've seen, it outperforms the venerable GTX 770, GTX 960 and the AMD R9 280X. That would slot it into the 7th level of Tom's Hardware's Gaming GPU Hierarchy when that gets updated again.

Not as fast as a new AMD HX 470 though.

So, it won't be a stellar performer (too few CUDA cores) but at a TDP of 75 watts without needing additional power, it could be a great solution for many people with older machines stuck with PSUs less than 450 watts.

 

[johnwhelan]

Not so fast there, JCitron! Check out some of these reviews for the GTX 1050 Ti (the slightly faster version of the 1050 with 4Gb of GDDR5):

http://videocardz.com/63999/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1050ti-reviews

According to benchmarks I've seen, it outperforms the venerable GTX 770, GTX 960 and the AMD R9 280X. That would slot it into the 7th level of Tom's Hardware's Gaming GPU Hierarchy when that gets updated again.

Not as fast as a new AMD HX 470 though.

So, it won't be a stellar performer (too few CUDA cores) but at a TDP of 75 watts without needing additional power, it could be a great solution for many people with older machines stuck with PSUs less than 450 watts.

Which would be the target market I think. People with older machines that don't run directx 11 and don't object to being choosey about what they run.

Cheerio John

 

[PC_Ace]

Yes - it is NVidia's entry-level card. Notwithstanding that, it appears to run many big-name current game titles with good frame-rates at 1080p resolution
Not recommended for higher resolutions like 1440p however.

 

[malikrthr]

I think the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050Ti would be great budget cards for TANE. It should run very smoothly with a few settings cranked down a bit.