NVIDIA has announced the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti, a pair of GPUs built for people who want to get into PC gaming. They're both based on NVIDIA's Pascal architecture, and the company says you'll be able to play many titles at a smooth 60 frames per second in 1080p. The GTX 1050 Ti is slightly more powerful, featuring 768 CUDA cores and 4GB of GDDR5 RAM. While the GTX 1050 offers 640 CUDA cores and only 2GB of GDDR5 RAM. Neither card supports VR, although there's no external power connector needed. You can buy the GTX 1050 on October 25th at $109, while the GTX 1050 Ti is expected to arrive around November 8th for $139 and above.
Nvidia is bringing its GTX 1000 series GPUs to laptops. This isn't the M series, it's the GTX 1060, GTX 1070, and GTX 1080 inside laptops (how insane in that!). Starting of, the GTX 1080 will run 2,560 CUDA cores at 1733Mhz, with 8GB of GDDR5X memory. The GTX 1070 (designed to replace the 980M) will run 2,048 CUDA cores at 1645Mhz with 8GB of GDDR5 memory, and the GTX 1060 (designed to replace the 970M) will run 1,280 CUDA cores at 1670Mhz with 6GB of GDDR5 memory. Nvidia's own benchmarks show impressive reference performance between the notebook and desktop versions of the GTX 1080, GTX 1070, and GTX 1060, with some tests leaving the notebook version of the GTX 1080 performing better. These latest GPUs provide at least 150% more performance than the M chips. Nvidia expects gaming notebook sales to increase by 30% this year, and its new GTX 1000 series will clearly help boost some of those notebook sales later this year.Gamers should get around 30% more battery life with these new GPUs, and Nvidia has tweaked its battery boost technology to improve frame variance when you're gaming without AC. Nvidia's biggest promise with these new GPUs is that they're VR ready, so you can use your HTC Vive or Oculus Rift on the go. What do you think of Nvidia giving gaming laptops a supercharge upgrade ?
