While the company’s principal business is motherboards, which it leads the market it, Gigabyte Technology is also one of the leading graphics card manufacturers in the world. Gigabyte produces GPUs with both Nvidia and Amd technologies in all price points. In addition, the Taiwan-based Gigabyte has in recent years become known for its gaming laptops and peripherals.
The graphics card business has been booming in recent years and discounts are much rarer than they used to be. In many occasions, popular GPUs are selling for over MSRP, but hopefully this is now over. While the Gigabyte’s GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB is not the latest or the greatest, it provides ample performance for basic gaming needs. Better yet, at a significant discount, it can be a value purchase for a setup designed for 1080p gaming.
The GeForce 1050 is part of Nvidia’s massively popular GeForce 10 series, which preceded Nvidia’s RTX era with the much-critiqued 20 series. As the GeForce 1050 doesn’t feature ray-tracing capabilities, it doesn’t lure gamers with less powerful setups into applying resource-heavy processing. Even though GeForce 1050 series cards were introduced already in 2016, they were brought back during the pandemic to release the pressure of the over-heating GPU market. Designed for 1080p gaming at 60fps, it features 4 gigabytes of GDDR5 RAM and support for up to 8K displays.
