Nvidia's Pascal-based GPUs are finally colliding with AMD's Radeon RX portfolio. Do the GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti rival Polaris' value proposition? Nvidia owns the high-end graphics space with its Pascal-based GPUs. AMD is making a big splash in the mainstream market with its Polaris-based cards. Inevitably, the companies? 14/16 nm processors were bound to overlap. The PC world is perhaps most transfixed by the coming of AMD's Vega GPUs, which promise performance to rival the top tier of GeForce cards. But that won't happen until the first half of 2017 (presumably closer to mid-year).

In the nearer term, Nvidia is ready to battle AMD's 2 GB and 4 GB Radeon RX 460 with its GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti, announced earlier this month. Both models utilize a new GPU called GP107. It's composed of 3.3 billion transistors and manufactured on a 14 nm FinFET process?notably not TSMC's 16FF+ node. Although the processor originates from a different foundry, GP107 continues to reflect the Pascal architecture's basic resource allocation.