According to recent rumors, NVIDIA is planning to rerelease the 4-year-old GTX 1050 Ti for AIBs. The NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti was first launched back in October of 2015. And now more than 4 years later, NVIDIA has decided to resupply the chips to AIBs in order to meet the demand for low-end SKUs.
The news was posted by Tech Yes City in which they covered NVIDIA resupplying the GTX 1050 Ti series to retailers. One of the retailers confirms to them that GTX 1050 Ti cards were not available for nearly two years, only to reappear again in 2021.
Ever since the launch of NVIDIA’s RTX 3000 series, graphics cards in the market have been in such low quantities due to crypto miners sucking up stocks. NVIDIA is having to look back to their old cards in this situation. Last month it was rumored that NVIDIA has begun resupplying TU106 GPUs for RTX 2060 graphics cards.
And now, NVIDIA is focusing on even older chips, such as the GP107-based GTX 1050 Ti series to meet the high demand for low end GPUs in the market. The 4GB graphics cards will certainly not deliver a high-end experience, but there is a good reason why NVIDIA is focusing on this SKU.
Currently in the marker, the supply of low-end GPUs is really low. The global pandemic has substantially increased the demand for entertainment and not all customers are willing to spend hundreds of dollars for a new graphics card.
The low-end cards like the GTX 1050 Ti are also not feasible to crypto miners, as Ethereum mining now requires more than 4GB VRAM, which basically put lots of Radeon RX 470 and RX 570 cards also back on the market.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is an entry-level GPU featuring GP107 GPU with 768 CUDA cores. At launch, a cut-down variant called GTX 1050 was available with 2GB memory, but eventually, the company also released a 3GB model. We will have to wait and see if this card fills the void in the low-end GPU market.
