When the GTX 1050 was announced NVidia claimed they were targeting users to help them Discover GeForce Gaming. The target market was those who may have never installed a discrete graphics card and were gaming on integrated graphics. They were careful not to mention the competition (read: AMD) or focus on users looking to upgrade an aging computer with some fresh graphics. Of course all of those are legitimate reasons to upgrade your graphics processor and is the story I'm sticking with.

In this review I'll be looking at three different GTX 1050 graphics cards from three popular manufacturers, EVGA, MSI and Zotac. They are all based on the same GPU and aside from their physical appearance, PCB design, Memory chips and clock speed they are all basically the same card.