Palit GeForce GTX 1050 Ti StormX 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
GTX 1050 Ti StormX 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card is equipped with solid capacitors, ferrite core chokes, and an improved PWM design. It brings you better performance and thermal solutions. Turn your PC into a true gaming rig with the fast, powerful GTX 1050 Ti StormX. It's powered by NVIDIA Pascal - the most advanced GPU architecture ever created. GeForce GTX graphics cards are the most advanced ever created. Discover unprecedented performance, power efficiency, and next-generation gaming experiences. Improved performance and power efficiency over previous-generation graphics cards. You can enjoy classic and modern games at 1080p @ 60 FPS. It features TurboFan Blade. Inspired by the power of jet engines, the Turbo Fan Blade is designed to improve cooling performance by generating a powerful air stream and air pressure.
Thunder Master is a utility program for the graphics card under Windows and provides you to boost the performance of the graphics card and to monitor the GPU information, which will only function correctly in conjunction with your new graphics adapter. It also features NVIDIA ANSEL IN VR. You can capture and create in-game screenshots that can be viewed in 360 degrees. Compose your screenshots from any position, adjust them with post-process filters, capture 4K HDR images in high-fidelity formats, and share them in 360 degrees using your mobile phone, PC, or VR headset.
Palit GeForce GTX 1050 Ti StormX 4GB GDDR5 Review
GTX 1050 Ti StormX Palit board uses the less expensive of the two chips, the GTX 1050 which features a 1455MHz Boost clock speed that’s actually a little higher than that of the GTX 1050 Ti, but comes with only 640 CUDA cores compared to the 768 of the Ti version. With 2GB of GDDR5 RAM on a 128-bit bus, it achieves a maximum memory bandwidth of 112GB/s.
These specs put the card ahead of the GTX 950 it replaces, yet the new board draws only 75W maximum power, removing the need for a supplementary 6-pin power connector and reducing the minimum recommended power supply rating from 350W to 300W. This greatly improves the card’s compatibility with older and less-capable PC hardware, but the removal of that 6-pin power connector also limits any overclocking potential which might otherwise push the power draw beyond what can be delivered by the motherboard alone.
Being a Pascal card, the GTX 1050 provides an up-to-date feature set, including DirectX 12 and Vulkan support, HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4, although the features dedicated to improving VR performance, such as Simultaneous Multi-Projection are of little use here as the card isn’t capable of VR-grade peformance.
The Palit card features a basic, functional two-slot design with a single fan atop a standard finned heatsink. As you would expect at this price, there’s not backplate or fancy heatpipe-based cooler. It provides single DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs and measures a compact 166mm x 112mm.
The introduction of the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti can be seen as Nvidia’s answer to the AMD Radeon RX 460 and our tests show that even the GTX 1050 is able to outperform the Radeon in the majority of benchmarks.
Focussing on 1080p performance, we find the Palit GeForce GTX 1050 StormX 2GB capable of averageing over 60fps at high settings in Thief and much higher still in Alien Isolation. These scores are well ahead of even a 4GB Radeon RX 460. The GTX 1050 also achieves quite playable frame rates of around 50 fps with Ultra settings, if you value visual quality more than fluid motion.
Attempting to push the resolution higher than 1080p probably isn’t a good idea, but you could try with less-demanding titles and VR performance is well below minimum performance levels, but this is to be expected given the cards stated performance goals.
Results like this are really impressive for a card costing just over £110, making it a really compelling purchase compared to a Radeon RX 460. If your budget is limited, you won’t be dissatisfied with what this card can deliver for the money.
If, on the other hand, you’re looking for the best graphics card you can install in your low-end PC, it’s well worth considering spending 50 per cent more for a 4GB GTX 1050 Ti, which will give noticeably better performance and some degree of future-proofing. It may seem like a big leap in percentage terms, but £50 isn’t a huge amount compared to the cost of modern games.
Specifications:
| Video Memory Specifications |
| Type |
GDDR5 |
| Size |
4096MB |
| Resolution |
4096x2160 |
| Core Clock |
Graphics Clock: 1290MHz
Boost Clock: 1392MHz |
| Memory Clock |
7000MHz
112 GB/sec |
| BUS Type |
PCI-E 3.0 x 16 |
| Memory Interface |
128bit |
| Stream Processors |
NVIDIA Pascal architecture |
| CUDA Cores |
768 |
| Interface |
| Display Port |
Yes |
| HDMI |
HDMI 2.0b |
| DVI |
Dual-Link DVI-D |
| Power Specifications |
| Recommended PSU |
300 W |
| Consumption |
75 W |
| Application Programming Interfaces |
| DirectX |
12 |
| OpenGL |
4.5 |
| Physical Specifications |
| Dimensions |
Height: 2 Slot
166mm x 112mm |
| Warranty |
| Manufacturing Warranty |
2 years |
