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If that was the case they could have very easily gone with 8 Gbps GDDR5 instead of 7 Gbps. And if we compare 1050Ti to 1060, which has 10 SMs (66% more) and a 192 bit bus, taking into account the higher clocks, 1060 has about 80% more shader/TMU performance for only 70% more bandwidth.
My point is that it may be pointless for the 1050ti to have core clocks anywhere like the other Pascal models.
It is best to not bring the 1060 into this because it is not comparable in any way as it has much higher Cuda cores/TMUs/ROPs/Mem clocks along with a 192-bit bus; the closest comparable trend is the 960 and 950, even then the 960 has more Cuda cores/TMUs than the 1050ti but the 950 is pretty comparable apart from TFLOPs and that is closer to the 960 for the 1050ti.
The trend is that the 960 on spec has much higher capabilities than the 950 while both being 128-bit bus, but the real-world does not translate to those differences and when both are OC to 1500MHz the gains become closer.
In other words the 960 has marginal gains when it comes to performance, especially when it is custom vs custom cards as seen with the two reviews I linked earlier.
You cut out the rest of my post that made the point.
If you check the links earlier you would see at max OC around 1475MHz - 1500MHz:
Bioshock
960: 78 fps
950: 75 fps
Tomb Raider
960: 90 fps
950: 83 fps
Hitman Absolution
960: 57 fps
950: 56 fps
3dMark Firestrike
960: 7461
950: 7003
Apart from Tomb Raider they are moderately close (although that is still only 8.5% faster), considering their specs:
960: 1024 cores, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 128-bit bus, 7000MHz effective mem clock, 2.3TFLOPs
950: 768 cores, 48 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 128-bit bus, 6600MHz effective mem clock, 1.57 TFLOPs.
Hence why I raised is there any point for the 1050ti to have clocks any higher than potentially 1700MHz core clock OC that was seen within an EVGA precision screenshot for one of their 1050ti, and why the official clocks are much lower.
However to re-iterate I do mention it could possibly be one of the other factors mentioned, but the trend of 950 and 960 does raise this as a pragmatic real-world reason.
Just as a reference the spec of the 1050ti seems to be 768 cores, 48 TMUs, 32 ROPS, just like the 950, while the memory clock is near identical to that of the 960 at 7012MHz and also with 2.1 TFLOPs FP32 that is not too far behind the 960.
And the caveat before anyone comments about the BGT G1, as I mentioned the two cards I am using are just below the top ones for both, so the % trend does not change.
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