Earlier this week NVIDIA began shipping the GeForce GTX 1050 graphics cards and our first review is of a Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Mini. A GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Linux review is still coming up plus some other articles looking at performance-per-Watt and other interesting areas for these low-cost Pascal-based GPUs. Here are results of the latest NVIDIA Linux performance compared to the latest open-source AMD Linux driver with various Radeon GPUs.

The GeForce GTX 1050 boasts 640 CUDA cores, 2GB of 128-bit GDDR5, and a boost clock up to 1455MHz. The Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Mini being used for testing today has a core clock of 1354MHz and boost clock of 1455MHz. This small form factor card should work out well for SFF PCs and HTPC setups with a size of 5.7 x 4.3 inches, but sadly is still a dual-slot card. Like the other GTX 1050 cards, no external PCI-E power connection is required with consuming less than 75 Watts.