All the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti custom cards announced so far (Updated)

Palit, Zotac

Palit

On Palit’s end, it’s offering slim pickings this time, going with just a single model for both the GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti.

The GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti Storm X are single-fan cards, and it looks like Palit is going straight for the mini-ITX market.

Both cards are clocked to reference specifications, and are among the most compact we’ve seen so far, even among the wide field of mini-ITX cards that the GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti have spawned. They are just 166mm long at their longest, a sure fit for even the most space-constrained system.

Palit is serving up the bare essentials here, and you won’t get bells and whistles like factory overclocks or an extra PCIe connector either.

The GeForce GTX 1050 Storm X will cost S$188, while the 1050 Ti model is more expensive at S$228.

Zotac

Like Palit, Zotac has set its sights on the mini-ITX market as well. It announced a slew of custom cards, where even the dual-fan variants are more compact than most of the competition. Here’s a list of what Zotac has in store:

• Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti OC Edition
• Zotac GeForce GTX 1050/1050 Ti Mini

Zotac has only made available an OC Edition card for the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. It measures 174mm long, and has a fairly hefty factory overclock to the tune of a 1,392MHz base clock and 1,506MHz boost clock. It draws power entirely from the motherboard’s PCIe slot, which may impose significant limits on potential overclocking performance.

The heatsink has a copper block that is in direct contact with the GPU, and heat is drawn away via dual 6mm copper heatpipes. And despite its small size, it still has dual 70mm fans on board.

The Mini variants of the card are even smaller. They are a mere 145mm long, with just a single 90mm fan for cooling. The heatsink fins radiate outwards from a central block that comes into direct contact with the GPU, and Zotac says this helps ensure that heat is dissipated more evenly.

But while the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mini ships with a slight factory overclock to a 1,303MHz base clock and 1,417MHz boost clock, the 1050 Mini retains its reference clock speeds.

There’s no word yet on price or availability.