GTX 1050 & 1050 Ti Laptops Announced - Desktop GP107 in Notebooks | CES 2017
Posted on January 3, 2017
NVidia has added to our pile of pre-CES hardware news with the announcement of GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti-equipped laptops. 30+ models from various OEMs will be arriving in Q1 2017, including several using Intel’s new Kaby Lake CPUs this week at CES. Confirmed manufacturers include Acer, Alienware/Dell, ASUS, HP, Lenovo, and MSI.
As mentioned in our laptop 1060/1070/1080 benchmark, improvements to power management mean that nVidia’s 10-series notebook GPUs are the real deal, rather than the neutered “-M” versions that laptops have gotten in the past. The specs listed for the notebook GPUs confirm this, with the only major difference being higher core clock speeds in the notebook 1050 and 1050 Ti. This doesn’t indicate a change in the physical hardware, it mostly seems that nVidia has increased the clock-rate given the high thermal headroom (room to increase heat) as a result of the efficient 1050/Ti GPUs. Like other 10-series laptops, OEMs will probably be allowed an additional +/-10% for overclocking their GPUs.
| GTX 1050 | GTX 1050 Notebook | GTX 1050 Ti | GTX 1050 Ti Notebook | |
| GPU | GP107-300 | GP107-300 (?) | GP107-400 | GP107-400 (?) |
| Transistor Count | 3.3B | 3.3B | 3.3B | 3.3B |
| Fab Process | 14nm | 14nm | 14nm | 14nm |
| CUDA Cores | 640 | 640 | 768 | 768 |
| GPCs | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| SMs | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| TPCs | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| TMUs | 40 | 40 | 48 | 48 |
| ROPs | 32 | 16 | 32 | 32 |
| Core Clock | 1354MHz | 1354MHz | 1290MHz | 1493MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1455MHz | 1493MHz | 1392MHz | 1620MHz |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Capacity | 2GB | Up to 4GB | 4GB | Up to 4GB |
| Memory Clock | 7Gbps | 3500MHz | 7Gbps | 3500MHz |
| Memory Interface | 128-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 112GB/s | 112GB/s | 112GB/s | 112GB/s |
| TDP | 75W | ? (Laptop Dependent) | 75W | ? (Laptop Dependent) |
| Release Date | November, 2016 | 1Q17 | 10/25/2016 | 1Q17 |
| Release Price | $110 | ? | $140 | ? |
Manual overclocking is understandably more restricted on laptops with power and temperature target controls disabled (core clock and memory clock are the numbers to play with), alongside disabled voltage tuning, but the power-saving aspect of nVidia’s GPU Boost 3.0 should shine in a battery powered machine. NVidia BatteryBoost also makes a return, allowing custom graphics settings when unplugged. This limits framerate to either 30FPS or 60FPS, depending on the user’s input on what tradeoff is acceptable for battery life. We have tested some of these features in previous laptop reviews for the 10-series, like this one. The 1050 and 1050 Ti can theoretically fit in laptops only 17mm thick, and from the looks of it, manufacturers are already trying to reach that goal.
NVidia estimates prices starting around $699 (or as we experts refer to it, $700). For more detailed information, check out our GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti benchmark and review.
- Patrick “Germ King” Lathan