NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 And GTX 1050 Ti Review: Low Power, Low Price Pascal
Shadow of Mordor And Thief Performance
Monolith’s surprisingly fun Orc-slaying title Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, delivers a ton of visual fidelity even at the lowest quality settings. So, to maximize the eye-candy on these high-end graphics cards, we ran the game’s Ultra quality benchmark routine at a couple of resolutions, topping out at 2560x1440 on these low-priced, mainstream graphics cards. All of the game's graphics-related options were enabled, along with FXAA and Camera Blur...
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Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor


The performance trend we've seen in most of the previous tests continued here. In Shadow of Mordor, the GeForce GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti cards are bunched up about in the middle of the pack, ahead of the Radeon RX 460, but behind the Radeon RX 470.
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Thief
We saw a similar performance trend in the Thief benchmark, but this time around the higher-clocked EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti was able to overtake the GeForce GTX 960 at 1080P -- both of the Ti cards beat the 960 at 2560x1440.