Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB Mini Graphics Card - Black

I bought this card mainly for the CUDA cores for encoding purposes. For that task I can re-encode a approx 2 hour Blu-ray movie in .ts format, in approx 8 mins now. This is while using a Ryzen 1700 8/16 threads @3.75Ghz for my CPU. If I used the CPU alone it takes approx 17-18 mins using all cores and generating a lot of heat I might add that needs a decent cooler. If I use the CPU+GPU the CPU cores only use around 4 cores and medium load of around 40-60%, this generates waaay less heat, only getting upto around 45C instead of 75C. Whilst that is my main usage of the card, it's still a quite capable gaming card too, averaging approx 50FPS in the witcher 2... if you game a LOT though and want higher FPS or higher settings, then you'd be better off paying the extra for a 1060 for sure. This is a lovely small card that doesn't bother you and is very quiet indeed, it could overclock easily enough as temps aren't a problem, which might give you upto 9 FPS more.

A great budget card to invest in! Considering the price, it's a great choice as it can run most recent titles on high without a problem. Only drawback I would say would be the limitations of the 2GB VRAM, which you bump into on a few occasions; e.g trying to put Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 Siege textures on high, so if it's within your budget I would advice to go with the TI version if possible.

Very easy to install alright price as graphics cards are hard to get hold of at the moment

An excellent graphics card packed into a shorter card length at a great price. Performance is pretty good as well with detail and colour depth looking sharp and clear respectively. Highly recommended.

We ordered this card for my son's computer as he couldn't play the Steam games on the PC with high graphics, e.g. Borderlands, GTA, human fall flat, Castlestory etc, so we installed this one without any problems, just plug and play. The fps went from 30 to 70 and my son said it was the best christmas present ever! It is very small, good for computers with not much space inside, and low power consumption. So good, we bought another for my other sons computer. Would definitely recommend!!

For those building a budget gaming PC this is a decent option but with some significant drawbacks. It's capable of hitting 60fps at 1080p on some graphically demanding games (such as The Division) on medium settings but pushing much beyond that sees a rather large drop off. The positives are it's size, it really is tiny in graphics card terms, which would make it something worth considering for those building in cases with tight space confines and the fact that is does not require power from the PSU (though that again speaks to the lack of punch it provides in performance). In reality, I think those putting together a budget gaming build would be better off making a few slight economies elsewhere in their set up and buying a 4gb 1050TI which, at the time of writing this review is only around £35 more expensive but would provide a much better gaming experience.

Would definitely recommend tho graphics card for a low budget and also packs a punch and can run variety of games. Definitely worth its money

Best graphics card on the market if you have no power cable on your PSU, period. More modern GFX require a PSU cable so this is as good as it gets if you don't have one and it can play games like Killer Instinct on maxed settings but begins to show its age on more recent titles like Civilization 6 and Street Fighter 5 Arcade Edition. Still more than playable however but will be obsolete in a few years.

Acheté pour remplacer une vielle GTX570Ti, cette carte rempli parfaitement son rôle. Très compacte, silencieuse et suffisamment puissante pour mon utilisation. contrairement à ma vielle carte, celle-ci ne dépasse pas les 60° en utilisation soutenue et, cerise sur le gâteau, est moins gourmande en alimentation. Installée sur ma vielle carte mère en PCI express 2.0, elle marche admirablement bien sans avoir besoin de connecteur additionnel. J'avais peur qu'elle ne soit pas assez alimentée, il n'en est rien. Super pour mettre à jour un PC vieillissant.

Dopo un anno di utilizzo e due CPU cambiate devo dire che sono totalmente soddisfatto.Come giocatore appassionato, la cosa che più mi preme avere mentre gioco sono i 60 FPS stabili (non credete a chi vi dice che 30 FPS sono il massimo per l'uomo, che oltre non notate differenze perché sono balle e potete constatarlo voi stessi con un semplice test; cercate UFOTest su Google e vedrete o giocate voi stessi a 30 fissi, poi passate a 60 e provate a dire che non ci sono differenze).Riesco a raggiungere i 60 FPS in ogni titolo con la 1050? La risposta non è proprio fissa. Generalmente, direi di si. So che ci sono tantissimi benchmark e vi consiglio di vederne per avere un idea più chiara delle performance, ma ritengo (o spero) un opinione da un giocatore qualunque possa essere utile.Io gioco principalmente titoli singleplayer; onestamente a parte giochi dall'ottimizzazione pessima su PC (Mafia III, guardo a te) tutti i titoli, anche recenti come Vampyr, ho potuto farli girare al framerate che volevo. Ora, ovviamente non tutti i titoli girano ad Ultra a 60 FPS; se volete questo prendetevi la 1060 e state a posto; Dark Souls III non riesco a farlo girare a 60 FPS, se non a qualità Alta, per esempio; lo stesso con The Witcher 3 che devo per forza di cose impostare a Medio per le mie esigenze.Comunque, come ho detto, tranne Mafia III ogni singolo titolo (indipendentemente dalla qualità) gira a 60 FPS. Se invece siete più fissati con la grafica, beh, non potete pretendere troppo dalla 1050; potete impostare tutto ad Ultra se volete, credo però che la GPU farà non poca fatica a farlo girare ad un framerate (qualunque esso sia) stabile e noterete spesso e volentieri dei problemi.Voglio aggiungere che quando avevo un G4400 un titolo per esempio che non ne voleva sapere di andare a 60 FPS indipendentemente dal livello di qualità nelle impostazioni era GTA V, oppure Rise of the Tomb Raider. Il che non vuol dire che non potete giocarci, a questi titoli, ma io sconsiglio di giocare a frame rate che non siano uguali o superiori a 60 (pur possedendo PS4, non Pro, ed essendo un grande fan Sony)Cambiando CPU e passando ad una i3-7100 ho notato finalmente che GTA V girava facilmente a 60 FPS quasi al massimo delle impostazioni. Con questo voglio dire, assicuratevi comunque di avere una CPU adatta perché il bottleneck può sicuramente farsi sentire.In generale, se vi interessa giocare decentemente a 1080p e del framerate non ve ne f***e e volete spendere poco, prendetevela pure. Poi ovviamente dipende anche dal tipo di titoli che giocate. Se vi piace Overwatch, oppure Fortnite, o CS:GO, PUBG, questa scheda va più che bene; se vi piacciono i titoli AAA e volete tutto ad Ultra a 60 FPS e avete preordinato Shadow of the Tomb Raider, prendetevi la 1060.

Ich bin mit der kleinsten "Pascal"-Geforce-Karte sehr zufrieden. Die Zotac GTX 1050 Mini 2 GB war m. E. genau die richtige Wahl, um mein älteres AM2+ System (Phenom II x6 1090T, 8 GB, SSD) noch einmal ein wenig "multimedial" aufzurüsten (WinSat GraphicsScore jetzt: 8.4). Als Nicht-Spieler brauche ich keine TI-OC-Version und konnte deshalb das günstigste Angebot zu diesem Zeitpunkt wählen, das war die Zotac. Außerdem sieht die schon echt "knuffig" aus. :-)Ein wenig Sorgen hatte ich mir im Vorfeld gemacht, weil selbst im Idle der minimale Fan Speed leider nie unter 45% sinkt (bei hier 24°C). Klar ist das ärgerlich, da hätte Zotac angesichts der niedrigen Temperaturen sicherlich einen geringeren Minimal-Wert im Bios programmieren (z.B. 33%) oder gleich ein paar EUR mehr für einen besser, feiner steuerbaren Lüfter ausgeben können. Andere Hersteller mit teureren Modellen bieten nämlich einen echten Silentbetrieb (im Idle, 0 db).Aber ich höre die Zotac-Karte hier bei mir gar nicht (heraus), was vermutlich an dem AMD boxed CPU Kühler im Midi-Tower liegt, der zusammen mit dem Gehäuselüfter sowieso alles andere akustisch überdeckt. In den USA kostet die Karte zzt. knapp 100$, hierzulande zahlt man leider einen Aufpreis, warum auch immer. Dank eines DisplayPort-auf-VGA-Adapters (R1142 von Rankie) funktioniert diese Geforce übrigens ganz problemlos an meinem alten Sony-Trinitron-CRT-Monitor (1024x768, 85 Hz). Entscheidend war für mich auch die relative Sparsamkeit in Sachen Stromverbrauch, G-Sync-Fähigkeit (für eine Zukunft, evtl. ohne den Stromfresser-CRT) und dass kein extra Anschluss benötigt wird (PCIe reicht aus, lt. GPU-Z in meinem Board: "PCIe x 16 2.0 @x8 2.0").

I bought this video card for my new PC which is a Dell Optiplex 7020 mini tower with stock psu so i needed a card plug and play that required no connectors from psu because i dont have one. The Zotac GTX 1050 2gb is a Perfect fit, i just put it in my pc pci express slot and then install the drivers and its now working perfectly. My pc specs is a intel i5-4590, 12 gigs of ram and stock Dell psu. So far i'm very happy with my purchase i can play all my favorite games at a very high resolutions and good fps.

Meine alte Radeon HD6770 wanderte in einen anderen Rechner, dessen Grafikkarte den Geist aufgegeben hatte. Nach etwas Recherche entschied ich mich für die Zotac Geforce GTX 1050, das günstigste bei Amazon angebotene Modell, die nun die Nachfolge antritt. Von den Leistungsdaten her scheint sie für mich als Gelegenheitszocker völlig auszureichen. Dies ist meine erste Geforce, nachdem ich in der Vergangenheit immer eine Radeon verbaut hatte.Die Karte ist schön klein und scheint mir besonders gut geeignet für den Einbau in kleine Rechnergehäuse. In meinen Shuttle-Barebone wäre zwar noch Platz für eine größere Karte, dennoch finde ich sie praktisch, da diese einen verrenkungsfreien Zugang zu den SATA-Buchsen erlaubt. Die Karte benötigt im Gegensatz zu meiner alten keine externe Stromversorgung mehr. Der PCI-Slot reicht dafür aus. Wie bei allen modernen Grafikkarten ist auch der Lüfter dieser Karte groß und in der Folge relativ leise. Ich finde das Lüftergeräusch geringer als das meiner alten Karte, also ausreichend leise für mich, und ich denke, dass nur sehr empfindliche Naturen sich daran stören würden.Der Einbau ging flott von der Hand, der Rechner ließ sich sauber booten und nach Installation der vorher heruntergeladenen Treiber für Win10 läuft die Karte nun klaglos. Ich habe die Karte kurz mit einigen älteren Spielen angetestet und der Leistungssprung ist schon enorm. Naja, da liegen ja doch ein paar Generationen zwischen meiner alter und dieser aktuellen Grafikkarte. Aber zum richtigen Zocken komme ich zurzeit nicht, die ersten Tests sind jedoch schon mal vielversprechend. Freue mich schon auf etwas mehr Zeit.