MSI GTX 1050 OC 2G Graphic Card Review

Test Setup

Hardware BBQ gets very minimum support from hardware manufacturers since we have a no-strings-attached policy and ended up blacklisting even tier 1 brands for improper misconduct. But thanks to a handful of companies who value the importance and benefits of providing components for the test bench, we do what we’re good at with the resources at hand. I would like to thank:

• Gigabyte India for providing Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming GT Rev 1.0 motherboard
• WD India for providing 4x WD Red 3TB NAS drives
• Coolermaster India for providing Coolermaster GX450 RS-450-ACAA-D3 Power Supply

Driver Version: 368.64

The fan speed is kept at auto for stock benchmark and on 100% when overclocked via WATTMAN and on Turbo presets when overclocked via Gigabyte Xtreme Engine. The

Futuremark Benchmarks

• 3DMark: Sky Diver, Fire Strike, Fire Strike Extreme and Fire Strike Presets

• 3DMark 11: Xtreme Preset

OpenGL Benchmarks: Cinebench 11.5 and Cinebench R15

Game Benchmarks

• Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor DX 11 with 3 presets

• Ashes of the Singularity DX 11 and DX 12 with 3 presets each

• Rise of the Tomb Raider DX 11 and DX 12 with 3 presets each

• Hitman (2016) DX 11 and DX 12 with 3 presets each

• DOOM OpenGL 4.5 with 3 presets each

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For measuring GPU computation, I’ve included Compubench benchmark workloads.