10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB is a very low performing piece of gaming hardware and can probably only run indie system requirements.

DirectX 12 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2023. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 242 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB graphics card is predicted to return a playable performance on Star Citizen at 1080p of 37 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is FIFA 22 which we saw got good frame rates of 61 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Back 4 Blood, which was getting 37 FPS under tests.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Star Citizen and predict it will deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 75 FPS, Medium: 59 FPS, High: 40 FPS and Ultra: 28 FPS. We then checked the performance on FIFA 22 to see if that runs well. It was reasonable with a 47 FPS at Ultra 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB running at 1440p is a suitable graphics card for this larger screen res. In some cases we might expect some graphics option tweaks down from Ultra to High to help improve FPS stability when gaming at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB in your PC? This GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB card has 12 to 18 months of latest AAA game play left in it before upgrading should be considered

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Asus ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB then a good choice would be RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB as this is better than 716 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 46% better performance as well. Alternatively upgrading this graphics card would have us consider the R-500 Series Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB which is 106% more powerful. This upgrade choice can also run 956 games from the most demanding games today.