CES 2017: Nvidia Launches GTX 1050 And 1050 Ti For Mid-Range Gaming Laptops [Video]
As CES kicking off this week, we have a flood of laptop-related announcements. As Intel is launching their Kaby Lake quad core (4+2) SKUs for laptops, and also too are new video cards are being launched to use in those systems. On that note, today NVIDIA is taking the wraps off of their latest mobile video cards, the GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050 for mid-range gaming laptops.
NVIDIA and their partners are launching the laptop versions of the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050, while the original desktop versions of these parts were launched back in late October, built using NVIDIA's GP107 GPU. T
The successor to NVIDIA's now-venerable GM107 has kicked off the Maxwell generation; GP107 is NVIDIA's mainstream performance, high-volume GPU. While the GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050 in turn are the formal SKUs, which will be the backbone of a number of mainstream gaming-capable laptops.
In the both graphic cards both parts are built using Nvidia's GP107 GPU. The GTX 1050 Ti is similar to its desktop counterpart: there's 768 CUDA cores, 48 TMUs and 32 ROPs plus a clock speed of 1493 MHz with a rated boost clock of 1620 MHz. Excitingly, the clock speeds of the mobile GTX 1050 Ti are a good 200-230 MHz higher than the desktop part that should provide some extra performance here.
For the memory part, the GTX 1050 Ti is equipped with 4 GB of GDDR5 on a 128-bit bus, clocked at 7 Gbps for 112 GB/s of bandwidth. With these specs, the GTX 1050 Ti should provide similar performance to the GTX 970M at a lower price point and TDP.
Both these new GPUs integrated and upgraded with the BatteryBoost technology, which will provide frame pacing while gaming on battery. With these cards users will be able to set a frame rate cap, so that longer playtime can be achieved on battery, and this frame rate will be maintained in a smooth and consistent fashion. Before this, gaming on battery was a poor and janky experience, but this will not be an issue with the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti.
However, gamers are right now looking to power VR experiences using a laptop will need to budget for a machine with at least a GTX 1070 GPU under the hood according to Nvidia's full rundown of its 10-series laptop GPUs.
As CES 2017 almost upon us, it would be unsurprising to see more laptops announced which pack GTX 1050-class GPUs, particularly given that Dell has announced its refreshed Inspiron 7000 series laptops which are powered by Nvidia's latest offering i.e. GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti.
