This is why I love this channel. Older and weaker hardware is featured and helps people decide if they should purchase or not. My GTX 1050 is still going strong.
@@NKG416 Lmao I feel that even on 22" My old 19" was truly great in terms of running lower resolution yet looking good, and a smaller screen to look at.
Yo! I recently built my first PC and was able to do it on a pretty good budget thanks to your videos. Thanks for so consistently making helpful content and giving tips on how to get good performance out of decently-priced hardware. Creators like you and Ozi do a great job at setting performance expectations that normal people can achieve, keep it up brother!
Never clicked like so fast in my life. Also the 1050 non-Ti 2GB is a decent budget GPU.... *Looks at local Facebook Marketplace prices* Yeah, nevermind.
@@cadista4ever698 Same with my 1650 Super, I guess that's the advantage of these cheap GPU's, you can play for hours and hours and they never heat up lol
Depends which price. Here the price ranges from 80 to 190 EUR. That is apsurd, considering that is the price for the non-Ti version, and the Ti version being sold for up to 350 EUR.
I bought one of these for $60 a month ago, but it’s the SFF/Low Profile Edition. It’s better than integrated graphics, and doesn’t require any extra power source!
@@faultyservice Don't forget the additional price of DDR5 and new compatible motherboards though. That's the real kicker that makes GPUs still the most sensible option for just about everyone.
Good video. I'm honestly impressed with these results. If I were going for an ultra budget build or upgrading an old office PC into something game-able, I'd heavily consider the 1050 non-Ti.
Still use a 1050 to this day. Absolute Chad. No external PCIE power which means it's the perfect kind of card to fit in an old workstation with a small power supply, which is exactly what I did.
As someone who has used this for years when I got it for $50, the GTX 1050 was one of the best GPU purchases I made and still made. I still play on console. I remember wanting to do streaming and recording. GTX 1050 support does wonders thanks to Nvidia's support(NVENC and Shadowplay). It still has DX12 support. It got the NIS from Nvidia and FSR in titles. Used Losseless Scaling as well. Played majority of every title I wanted on it. I still played Metro Exodus and Jedi Fallen Order by the lowest settings with every trick. I used it for video compression in XMedia Encoder. It's not fast, but it does just as well as any other Nvidia card compression. I could play and stream Genshin Impact on it high settings at 1080p 60fps with my buddies. I could play any titles really with little performance hit. I also remember modding the card with a dead R9 270x GPU cooler and fan. After putting plenty of thermal pads and regular amount of paste on a bigger cooler. I could get 2000mhz core and 4000mhz memory. I bought it for $50 cause it was thought to be broken. It wasn't. It just had a bad fan to cool it. Turns out though. I won the silicon lottery. And at no better time too. Especially when COVID hit and all the GPU prices skyrocketed. This GTX 1050 powered though it all. I did all of this while transferring from system to system. All with only 2gb Vram. And with no high power input(PCIe connector). And all for around $50. The GTX 1050 2gb is the best GPU I ever had. I'm now using a Tesla M40 12gb with all it's workarounds and a dead GTX 1070 blower style cooler and fan. But dang, my GTX 1050 2gb. I will never sell it. Happy with the videos as always.
I am still rocking an 4th gen i5 + 1050 setup and I am happy to say that it does really good even today (I am mostly playing forza and some esports titles like lol and valorant), yes the 2gb really hinders the performance but in my opinion, for some older games, it does the job.
My standard 1050 is still going today in my gaming rig for older games Im going to keep that set up cause some specific games run better on older CPU and GPUs.
In recent months I've found being willing to go 720p low/medium settings opens up a lot of room for even really old cards. New PSU is arriving next week though, to replace the one that died from a power surge. I'm hoping the rest of the PC was unaffected by said surge as locally even a 1030 is going for over $100, so my existing 1070 is the only real option for a semi-decent card for gaming for a while yet.
I still own the Ti version of this card, still serves me well and has decent performance even in modern games. Wish I could’ve just bought the 1660 super though(which was roughly the same price), price for the 1050ti in my country is absurd.
Since you also have to install and configure RDR2 and GTA5 many times each year: Do you also hate their graphics menu as much as I do? No Presets, not accepting changes alot of the time. A pain in the ....
My first card was the Gtx 1050. I was a console guy and unfortunately my ps4 broke. I was already thinking about getting a gaming pc for half a year but never went thru cause ps4. Then I looked into a gpu I could plug into the house pc that had an i5 4460. Learned about power connectors and bought a gtx 1050 100$ Cad. At the time it was an absolute beast. Easily getting 60fps in practically every game I threw at it. While the limited Vram made me choose lower settings, I didnt think it was drastically different from the ps4. But now? looking pretty rough
@@doomguy979 gtx 1050 4 gb laptop will pretty much net you a ps4 in terms of performance. So lots of games will run at 30fps at 1080p. games like God of War will run at 1080p 30. games like Doom can run at 1080p 60.
Great vid mate, this makes me feel nostalgia for my old 1050ti from a few years back... feel bad for just letting it gather dust since the past year having upgraded to my gaming laptop with a 3060 😂
Until recently one of these with 2 fans was my daily driver. It played WoW at preset 5 with good FPS. Now it's running a 55 inch 4k screen in my media PC and is doing very good at playing movies.
I got a Quadro P1000 for free (similar performance to the GTX 1050, plus it's got 4GB of VRAM), and I have to say.. I'm impressed. Hoping to sell it and get a 1660 super
I have GTX 1050 paired with i5 3rd gen and its amazing! I have fps that i want to. All e-sports games are running 144+ fps and i have 144hz monitor. So I am very satisfied with 1050
I'd say the GTX 950 is the new minimum for contemporary gaming. It performs similar to the 1050 but usually at a lower price. The 1050 has its advantages such as most not needing power connectors, lower TDP, and will age better due to having a newer architecture. Still, they're both solid performers in sub-$100 budgets.
My personal recommendation is the GTX 660. I've found some for $65-$70 and can play a lot of titles. For someone with old integrated graphics or GPUs like a GT 710 no matter the version, it's a huge upgrade at a nice price. It can even play some modern games, where still cheaper but older options like the GTX 460 cannot. For the AMD side, a HD 7850 is a pretty close equivalent in price and performance, depending on the game. Of course, anyone that already has a better card or wants to play anything recent at 1080p should stick to at least a GTX 780 or a GTX 960, the latter preferred, whichever is cheaper. Or something like an R9 280/HD 7950 or RX 560 for the AMD side.
you should definitely try implementing Arma 3 as one of your benchmarks, its a performance hog when played in multiplayer (especially King of The Hill and Warlords servers). Most mid-range or budget systems can barely touch 60+ fps even at low to low-ish medium settings in multiplayer. Would love to see you add that in for future tests :D
I think that's because Arma 3 is more CPU bound, fps won't change much if you have a 1050 or a more powerful card I can say that my 1050 can definitely run Arma 3 single player missions with medium-low settings at 60+ fps, but it starts dropping when you raise the draw distance or the amount of AI
What blows my mind is how everyone tries to go for a 1080p gaming experience from an old Dell/pc when 720p is what you should be aiming for in a budget build because it doesn’t look bad at all, a few years ago most of us had tvs in our house that MAXED OUT at 720p so for anyone who says 720 Peet Luxe bad and isn’t true HD basically is a clown. I’m not saying that 1080 P doesn’t look better. Of course it does. There’s a lot more pixels there but 7:20 PM can also deliver you a beautiful gaming experience and like you’re saying and showing here it’ll help boost the frame rate from 30 to 60 and be completely honest I will not play a game at 30 frames per second. I just want maybe I’ll try Eldon ring, But that’s just because of how much everybody was talking about it and saying how amazing it is. I kind of just want to try it out to be completely honest I would not be able to play through the entire game and 30 frames at minimum I would need 45 frames that still not good for me but you lower the resolution is 720 and shit I’ll even lower the graphics quality low for a game like Elden ring that I want to try as long as I can get 60 or 45 frames if that’s possible and Elden ring I’m not sure if that’s an option like it is in Genshin Impact. If you go with 7:20 PM in mind medium settings, you can get a great gaming experience so that’s what you should do in my opinion. If you aim for 720 P medium settings, you’ll be happy with You’re $150 PC
I recently bought a GTX 1050-Ti a couple weeks ago for $135 and I love the card very much. It seems very similar to the regular 1050, despite having twice as much VRAM (I also overclocked it a little)
I had this card since 2019 and upgraded to a 2060 a few months ago since i got a temporary job where they allowed minors, it was a real good card but it was getting old and I needed something beefier for my gaming needs, nonetheless though, it's an amazing card for starting to get into pc gaming
I would expect the actual minimum to only be able to reach 30fps on some games. It makes me wonder if you can go even lower. Also, I find it hard to imagine how playing at 720p would look worse than the Ultra FSR preset on Cyberpunk. It might have been good to include a clip.
I paid 136 € for my Zotac GTX 1050 Mini a year ago, used. It wasn't a good price/performance ratio, but it gets the job done after my great GTX 660 3GB died without any warning.
Hey, i have this exact card, i bought it in august 2017 and i still use it today. It is paired with a i5-3470S and 8 GB RAM. I have played a lot of games with it, mostly GTA V, CS:Source, CS:GO and other games. Nice video.
If you set correct settings om Nvidia control panel for each game in order to optimize further it will run better. Also for sinle player games like gow , set to half refresh rate and it feel exactly like consoles.. smooth 30fps
I had a Gigabyte GTX 1050 mini profile, I put it into a Dell prebuilt that had an i5-2400 cpu with 10gb ram as a pc for my dorm in college since I kept my main gaming computer at home, this was back in 2019, it was acceptable and let me play most games I wanted on medium settings in 2019 titles especially since I had a 900p monitor for the dorm so it was decent Back in 2019, I remember getting 50-60fps in main stream titles in 2019 with medium settings and 900p resolution, definitely having a 20in. 1600x900 monitor helped with performance
Remember when adding cards to an OEM PC with a 300w power supply was a thing??.... Seems to be a lost art nowadays. 65w to 75w Cards like the 750ti, 1050, 1050ti, GTX 650 were good for this. Back in 2017, The Radeon RX 570 might have been a better value than the GTX 1050ti, but when it came to upgrading an OEM system it lost it's shine because it needed at least a 450w-550w power supply.
5 Years ago i was still using a fx 8350 and a xfx hd 4870 that had a badass hockey mask on the shell. I didnt know too much about pc's, i had that pc for many years since my dad built it when he owned a pc repair shop in the hood (he put 2 other buisness out of buisness becuase he was very good at his job and spoke spanish and polish and hooked people up....and sold calling cards for Puerto Rico and Poland so he won). I only played WoW and Warframe, so i didnt need much at the time but the damn thing would always lock up and i just didnt understand why....... Then my cousin sent me a 1050 and that thing changed my life, all the sudden im gaming in HD and my pc didnt set on fire anymore. It set me on my current path
quality vs performance. i still prefer 720p over 1080p because it will give you a boost in framerate even in medium or high quality settings. im still using this card paired with i7 2600k now and it can play Watchdogs Legion in 52-60fps with no lag and stutters whatsoever.
This card is great for emulating older Nintendo Consoles! For my emulator fans out there, this card is the one you want, even over the GT 1030 since the 1050 supports Nvidia Shadowplay (or whatever they’re calling it these days) whereas the 1030 does not.
The 2gb 1050 was a fantastic gpu for the price back in 2016, even at 1080p! But the vram limitations nowadays is a true pain in the *ss honestly Very sad that nvidia dont make great low priced gpu liked that anymore.... maybe one days they'll stop scam gamers with overpriced and bad performing gpu like those 1650/3050.. :'/
I built a PC in 2018 with this. It got me through Red Dead Redemption 2 and the Witcher 3 on lower settings, and it's perfect for going back the slightly older games of high settings. Definitely a limited card, but it gave me many hours of gaming joy over the years.
Cool work as for gtx 1050. Thx 4 vid. My 1060 has burned my tv and itself. Buyed 1050 on a money that i had. That's a pain. Big pain. Want to know about NIS.
At 900p this card can handle everything I play and the most demanding I have is BF1, since I always play online competitive games with everything low and sometimes with no sound, the experience is always great and is very quiet. Since the prices for gpus are crazy high in my country, I'm glad for everyday my non Ti 1050 gives me
When GPUs first shot up in price all the way back in 2017 due to bitcoin mining (before the copycat coins popped up), I couldn't get my hands on any GPU for a good price. I settled for the 1050 since it wasn't severely above MSRP on marketplaces like ebay. I used it for a few months before I found a used 980ti for $220. I remember it performing fine but just not quite good enough. It also kind of helped that the only monitor I had at the time was 1440x900p.
I am still rocking the gtx 1050 and i5 7400 in my brothers old acer aspire gx prebuild. I upgraded the ram from single stick 8gb to dual channel 16gb. Still runs all of my games quite well but i will upgrade the gbu soon beacuse the 2gb just aint enough sometimes.
Imma be honest I didn't expect this card to get 30+ fps in Cyberpunk at 1080p with FSR on quality. I thought for sure a base of 720p would be necessary. Really holds up better than I thought. The VRAM is def a limit tho.
Haha Yes! I'm still using one of these in an ancient rig. My settings are all on medium and yeah I'm struggling to get anywhere near 60fps its more like 35 - 45fps. Its probably down to the naff CPU some old I3 3200 or something and 8gig of DDR 3 RAM lol, cool vid keep em coming.
I bought my kids a couple of Dell Optiplex MT PCs so that they can play some games when they come over for the weekend. Last week I bought a MSI GTX 1050 2GB for one of them to replace a GTX 750 2GB (non ti) which was getting quite long in the tooth. I paid €80 for it and it works a charm along with the i5 2500 and 16GB of DDR3. Now he can play almost everything at 1080p medium settings, sometimes with a sprinkle of NIS and he's very happy with it.
Just bought a used 1050ti for 50€. Will give it to a friend of mine who is still rocking her HD3870 with 512MB of VRAM. While still a low end card, that 1050ti should be a large upgrade for her occasional gaming sessions.
@@karroq Sure, but it’s never a 1:1 comparison. Consoles get greater optimisation since the hardware is one and the same all the time. So even with comparable HW consoles should pull over PC ports, especially if those are bad.
I bought a dell prebuilt from my school, 4th gen i5 iirc. 100€ including a good Dell office monitor. About 2018-2019. Then added a 1050 from Ebay, + ssd, dad got a great little gaming pc. It's not super powerful as you see in this video, but he mostly plays World of Tanks and some other older games, he is very happy with it.
I had a 1050 for ages, up until 2020. Only reason I upgraded was Doom Eternal, it was having issues. Otherwise the card served me since 2017. Now going strong in a first rig that I built and sold on to a friend
fun fact: I bought the GTX 1050 2GB in 2017 and later "upgraded" the the GTX 1050 Ti 4GB somewhere around 2020 before the prices skyrocketed LOL! BUT I really regret not buying a used RX570/RX580 when they were selling for 120-150 euro :(
Miners bought GPUs at ridiculous prices so everyone thinks gamers will too. As most of us will not, there will be a bottom falling out of the GPU market that has already begun. It's why you see nothing in the way of good new cheap cards. Both AMD and Nvidia realize the used market will cover their asses until the foreseeable future as crypto continues to collapse.
Once again the Pascal GTX1000 series still showing it’s dominance and defiance while still gaming in many of todays generation of titles for a good price 🥰🤩🤯. The one and only generation of gpus Nvidia produced that people loved 🥰 and still hold to till this very day!
If you’re content with locking the fps at 30, dips below 30 will occur way less often at the higher quality settings and will give an experience similarly to consoles if not better
just bought an rx 580 8gb to replace my 1050 2gb and im really impressed with the 580 so far, i have gotten about 75% of the peformance you had in your testing as having 3 monitors connected to this card just drops the peformance so much but that also meant that rdr2 was in the 24fps range on the lowest possible settings with fsr and everything on 720p much happier with my 580 now and i hope it lasts as long as the 1050 it replaced even if its the same age
When setting new game on so low details, games that came before, like Skyrim, Oblivion, Unreal tournament 3, look better on max details than new games on low details and run smooth, no matter if new games have like twice or more better base graphic.
Image scaling will never compensate for the texture mapping required for most GPU's to process. So while its an awsome feature for resolution upscaling, if the GPU doesnt fill in texture mapping, its still a huge miss, on the final image rendering quality.
I had this vc for two years and was an exceptional option but I changed it because of the 2 gb of vram. It's nice to see is still a good option for gaming.
Started my pc journey with a 1050ti in an optiplex with an i7 2600. Was a great little pc, kinda wish I kept it. Got the bug though. Went to i5 8400 and an i5 9600k. Bought a 1660ti and a 6600xt. Traded my 1660ti for a 1080ti. Then traded my 6600xt for a 3060ti. Pretty happy gaming in vr playing racing sims with steering wheels.
You should try rigging these up to an old SD CRT TV, I reckon you could get a lot of these games running great at 60FPS at 480P and looking quite nice in a retro sort of way.
@@dallesamllhals9161 Sorry kid as an old school gamer that remembers when Space Invaders came out I'd say you are missing the point, typical millennial.
my friend has this gpu and as he bougt a budget pc it is perfect for the price and his needs, he plays only e sports titles. but the best part is once he told me his pc is turning off i went to help him i took out the gpu and the gpu fan was dangling not secured at all ;)
The 1050 Ti was my first graphic card purchase when I got into PC gaming back in 2018. I've seen upgraded twice (from 1050 Ti to 1660, and then 1660 to 1660 Ti), but the 1050 Ti served me very well. I think it's a very good GPU for someone just starting their journey in the world of PC gaming.
I had a hard time deciding between the 1650 D6/Super or a 1660. Ended up with neither. I will say, if you can manage an upper priced 1050 Ti. Try to get a 1650. Same power use, Big fps boost. D6 +5-8% perf boost over original.
@@MikyleY here 1650 ddr6 is 200 euro and 1660 is between 380 and 420 euro. That's twice as expensive, definetly not worth it. Even more because we have rtx 3060's in stock starting from 420 euro lol
@@TheTryingDutchman Oh I meant the price difference between a 1050ti and a 1650. In any case, prices for gpus will obviously vary across regions so there's not one true definitive answer to "the best budget card" I suppose
i have non ti gtx1050 but with 4gb vram (hp laptop) with i5-8300h. it's still enough to run most of new games in 1080p. the only one so far that was not really great was 'Medium' when played in two worlds simultaneously. fps was dropping to about 15... well, still completed the game! would be nice if You'd make a review of theese mobile versions with 4gb vram one day too. cheers mate!
