NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Video Card Listed
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2GB graphics card was introduced back in October 2016 and over the past 1 years it has proven itself to be a decent eSports graphics card at the $109 price point. The GeForce GTX 1050 used the GP107 Pascal core with 640 CUDA Cores enabled and had 2GB of GDDR5 memory running on the 128-bit bus for 112 GB/s of memory bandwidth at the stock clock speeds of 7 Gbps. Those that wanted more power needed to step up to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti that used a GP107 Pascal GPU core with 768 CUDA cores enabled and 4GB of GDDR5 memory running at 7 Gbps for 112 GB/s of bandwidth.
We just spoke with NVIDIA and found out that the 2GB GDDR5 memory ICs used on the current 2GB solution are becoming difficult to source. NVIDIA is adding a 3GB GDDR5 sku to provide flexibility to NVIDIA’s board partners so they can meet the demand for GTX 1050. NVIDIA says told us this memory constrained market is rather unfortunate, but the expect the NVIDIA GeFroce GTX 1050 3GB cards to perform nicely. The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will still use the GP107 GPU, but with 768 CUDA cores enabled and the 3GB of GDDR5 memory will be running at 7 Gbps on a narrower 96-bit memory bus for 84 GB/s of memory bandwidth. All three GeForce GTX 1050 series cards have a 75W TDP and don’t require extra power headers.
This is a 25% reduction in memory bandwidth over the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB and GeForce GTX 1050 2GB models. The good news is that there are 20% more CUDA cores running at higher clock speeds than the GeForce GTX 1050 2GB reference card. Actual performance is of course game dependent, but on average, NVIDIA told us that the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is approximately 10% faster than GeForce GTX 1050 2GB.
No pricing has been released on the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB and NVIDIA couldn’t give us guidance. We talked to a couple NVIDIA board partners this afternoon and it sounds like these cards will be shown off at Computex 2018 with retail availability shortly thereafter in June 2018. The MSRP of the GeForce GTX 1050 2GB is $109 and the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB is $139. We’d expect this card to launch with an MSRP of around $119.