The Pascal-based NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti is a card that hasn’t been seen in the green jungles of NVIDIA’s AIB ecosystem since the past two years. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of the smoldering fire that is the GPU market in 2021, the NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti is officially returning from the dead as NVIDIA struggles to meet overwhelming demand.
NVIDIA bringing Pascal GPUs back from the dead to avoid part of the supply
The news was released by TechYesCity (via Videocardz) and highlights the demand / supply situation that currently prevails in the global GPU market. With the growth of cryptocurrencies, the bottleneck of TSMC and the delays induced by COVID affecting the supply chain, we are facing one of the worst GPU markets in history (or the best, depending on your perspective). In fact, NVIDIA decided to bring back a Pascal-based GPU that has been dead for over 2 years: the GTX 1050 Ti.
The GP107, case of 4 GB will certainly not gain any performance benchmarks, but will be able to seriously complement NVIDIA’s low-cost shipments – which have been hit particularly hard. With the cost of Ampere GPUs high due to the lack of materials, it makes sense for the company to change the low-cost lines to an older architecture (at a very affordable price). Unfortunately, however, this card, in 2021, will offer little more than just very basic gaming performance (in low configurations, 1080p) and would probably only be purchased by OEM manufacturers who want to ship their units with more “discrete” graphics cheap card possible.
Another interesting point that Videocardz mentions is that Ethereum’s current DAG file requires more than 4 GB of vRAM in order to be mined – meaning that the Ti 1050 will not be targeted by money changers or miners – making it the ideal low-end GPU . To all those who are waiting to get their hands on a GPU – I also have a ray of hope. Ethereum is preparing to transition to betting proof sometime this year and should mark the beginning of the end of energy hungry GPU mining, as the rest of the ecosystem follows suit.
Unfortunately, however, we don’t expect the market to improve until the end of 2021 (if any) and you’d better look for limited supplies of quasi-MSRP at major retailers like Amazon (or direct from AIBs) to secure a unit for yourself .