The Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 Ti is expected to meet the minimum requirements for the Oculus Rift

After a long period of rumors, Nvidia has officially introduced the Geforce GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050, which take the architecture Pascal to the entry-level segment. The goal for the duo is above all to deliver a good experience in 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, but Nvidia also claims that the better of the models should keep the measure of virtual reality.

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Earlier in October, Oculus announced that system requirements had been lowered for Rift, something made possible by a technology called Asynchronous Spacewarp. It is a feature that allows games to be rendered at 45 frames per second (fps), which are duplicated and changed to display a frame rate of 90 fps.

The introduction of the technology means that the minimum requirement on the graphics card side went down from a Geforce GTX 970 to a much cheaper GTX 960. The upcoming GTX 1050 Ti will in turn perform better than the latter, which means that Nvidia expects it to reach the Oculus minimum requirement.

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Specifications: GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050

	GTX 1050 Ti	GTX 1050	GTX 750 Ti	GTX 750
Technical	Samsung 14 nm	Samsung 14 nm	TSMC 28 nm	TSMC 28 nm
Circuit	GP107	GP107	GM107	GM107
Circuit surface	132 mm²	132 mm²	148 mm²	148 mm²
Transistors	3.3 billion	3.3 billion	1.87 billion	1.87 billion
Architecture	Pascal	Pascal	Maxwell	Maxwell
CUDA cores	768 st.	640 st.	640 st.	512 st.
Texture units	48 st.	40 st.	40 st.	32 st.
Raster units	32 st.	32 st.	16 st.	16 st.
Clock frequency	1 290 MHz	1 354 MHz	1 020 MHz	1 020 MHz
GPU Boost	1 382 MHz	1 455 MHz	1 085 MHz	1 085 MHz
Computational power	2 123 GFLOPS	1 862 GFLOPS	1 389 GFLOPS	1 111 GFLOPS
Memory bus	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit
Memory amount	4 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	4/2 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5
Memory frequency	7 000 MHz	7 000 MHz	5 400 MHz	5 000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s	112 GB/s	86,4 GB/s	80 GB/s
Power supply	–	–	–	–
TDP	75 W	75 W	60 W	55 W

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However, Nvidia’s new Geforce GTX 1050 Ti is not a direct replacement for the GTX 960, but instead the GTX 750 Ti. The heart of the graphics card is the GP107 circuit, which Nvidia now confirms is manufactured on Samsung’s 14-nanometer technology. The same goes for the GTX 1050 which comes with a slightly scaled-down variant.

In addition to a graphics circuit with fewer CUDA cores and texture units, a distinctive difference with the GTX 1050 is that it only has 2 GB of GDDR5, instead of the 4 GB of GDDR5 that sits in the GTX 1050 Ti. Both models have a TDP value of 75 W, which means that they can be operated without additional power supply from a PCI Express connector.

On October 25, the media will publish tests on both graphics cards, of which the GTX 1050 Ti will start sales on the same day. The Geforce GTX 1050 is expected to appear a little later, but no later than November 8.

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