This article was reprinted with permission from Superpower.com.
With the exposure of the GTX 1180 graphics card, a new generation of 12nm Volta architecture game cards is finally looking forward to a glimmer of hope. It is expected that more information will be announced at the Taipei Computer Show next month.
But how can mortals possibly think of NVIDIA? New architecture graphics haven't arrived yet, and existing Pascal graphics cards can still be a knife -Before the GTX 1060 guillotine cut out the GTX 1060 5G version, now it is GTX 1050, derived from the GTX 1050 3GB version.
NVIDIA's GTX 1050 graphics card was released in October 2016. It has been more than a year since then and it is still in the 1,000-class graphic card market. GP107 core, 640 CUDA cores, 128-bit wide, 2-4GB video memory, 2GB is common. Memory version, the price is as low as thousands of dollars.
Roadside News said that the GTX 1050 graphics card will be followed by new products, adding a 3GB version between 2GB and 4GB of video memory.
This news is a bit embarrassing Earlier castration GTX 1060 6GB version of the graphics card is the memory bandwidth from 192bit castration to 160bit, to meet the 5GB memory capacity, and now how the 128bit bit width knife?
Taking into account the GP107 core native bit width is 128bit, when the new product is not possible to increase the memory bandwidth, and 3GB memory between 2-4GB, the largest possible still castrate 32bit bit width, becomes 96bit, happens to be GTX 1060 bit Wide, half the capacity.
If you do not cast memory bit width, continue to maintain 128bit width, it is likely to use the previously used asynchronous memory capacity configuration. GTX 1050 graphics card now generally use 4 memory, replaced by 3G version is 2 1GB, 2 512MB Yes, but this configuration also needs to find a suitable supply of memory particles, after all, the current 512MB of memory should not be much.
As for what NVIDIA eventually adopted, I can't guess: If the bit width does not change, then 3GB version GTX 1050 can also be seen as an enhanced version; If it is 96bit width, then the memory bandwidth has decreased, although the capacity increases, the performance is not necessarily better.
With the 3GB version of the GTX 1050 graphics card, computing NVIDIA's memory configuration over the past two years, but toss a lot, there is a good direction toss, such as the 9Gbps version of the GTX 1060 graphics card, 11Gbps GTX 1080 graphics, the results The price is too expensive, manufacturers consumers do not buy it.
More common is to cut the memory, such as the GGTX 1060 5G version, and the recent DDR4 version of the GT 1030 graphics card, this approach saves costs, NV and graphics card manufacturers will gladly follow up.
For consumers, now we are not sure how the performance of the 3G version of the GTX 1050 will be. Don't rush to judge the quality. Wait until the graphics card comes out for a while.
