It’s more than two years since NVIDIA’s Pascal architecture for video cards hit the market. It’s high-time that the consumers saw more the next generation GPUs from the green team. NVIDIA, however, has something very different in mind as they have just released the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3GB.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3GB shares the same count of NVIDIA CUDA cores at 768 as well as the same 75W TDP. Like the name suggests, the card will ship with 3GB of GDDR5 VRAM running at 7Gbps. Unlike the 1050 2GB/1050Ti, the 3GB version only has a 96-bit memory bus, which allows the card to reach a maximum of 84GB of memory bandwidth. This decision to cut down the memory bus is a bit questionable as both the 1050Ti and 1050 2GB has a 128-bit memory bus.
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3GB | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2GB | |
| NVIDIA CUDA Cores | 768 | 768 | 640 |
| Base Clock | 1290MHz | 1392MHz | 1354MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1392MHz | 1518MHz | 1455MHz |
| Memory Speed | 7Gbps | 7Gbps | 7Gbps |
| Memory Size | 4GB GDDR5 | 3GB GDDR5 | 2GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 128-bit | 96-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 112GB/s | 84GB/s | 112GB/s |
| TDP | 75W | 75W | 75W |
No price has been set yet for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3GB but it’s safe to say that it won’t take space from the other existing NVIDIA cards out in the market.
