After trying out the low-end VGA card segment comprised of the RX460 from AMD, it is now the time to look what Nvidia brings up to the table and to be more exact the GeForce GTX 1050. The GPU does come with a GP107-300 Pascal architecture that does pack 640 shader units (five SMs), 40 texture mapping units and 32 ROPs. The fabrication process for these chips is 14nm, unlike the GTX 1060, GTX 1070 or GTX 1080 which are on 16nm TSMC and one of the benefits for these budget-friendly cards is low power consumption. It is believed that these GPUs are manufactured in Samsung fabs.

The card packs 2GB of GDDR5 memory buffer, while the bus width is 128-bit.

KFA2 is again proposing a pre-overclocked card from the factory; this means that the GPU clock has been increased from the NVIDIA’s specs of 1354MHz to 1367MHz, while the RAM clocks did remain at the same levels.

Even if we are discussing about a budget-friendly video card, KFA2 does not seem to make compromises and we get the same quality as we have been used to with their other products. The GTX 1050 OC video card is shipped inside a medium-sized cardboard enclosure, which specifies some of the main highlights and supported technologies:

On the box sides, we will be able to check a complete list of GPU features, along with the minimum system requirements along with the box contents (which is not complete, inside the enclosure there is not only the video card present):

Even more information about the product can be found on the back side:

After removing the top layer of the packaging, we will end up with an all-black box:

Inside the box, we will find a lot of protective foam, so the card will be shipped unharmed; also here we will get to see the documentation, along with the installation disk:

The installation guide is standard and can be applied for any other video card: