Published: February 16, 2017 | Source: MSI Gaming | Author: Mark Campbell

MSI GTX1060 ITX and GTX1050 Ti SFF – RushKit

Over the past few years, small form factor PC have become increasingly common, whether it be for a small office PC, a console-style gaming PC or even just a basic HTPC for your living room.Â

In time GPUs have started to be more heavily utilised by modern PCs, whether it be for low latency content encoding/decoding, in-home game or video streaming or for simply workstation applications that are becoming increasingly reliant on GPU acceleration.Â

Many of us do not want out systems to come in monstrousÂ sizes, instead aiming for a compact solution that can maintain low noise levels and respectable cooling performance. Â Â

Today, we will be looking at two new compact GPU designs from MSI, including the companies half height GTX 1050Ti SSF 4GB and their ITX friendly GTX 1060 Aero ITX 6GB.Â

When most people see small form factor GPUs they think, “Gosh, aren’t those GPUs going to run hot?” but in our own thermal testing, we found that wasn’t’ the case with the GTX 1060 Aero ITX 6GB running at a maximum of 62 degrees under load and the 1050Ti SFF 4GB running at 61 degrees.Â

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The half-height GTX 1050Ti will come with the same base/boost clock speeds as Nvidia’s reference model, with the GTX 1060 6GB Aero ITX coming with a mild factory overclock. The GTX 1050Ti does not require any external power connections, so any PC with a PCIe 16x lane should have enough power to use the GPU to its fullest potential.Â

Â	Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti	MSI GTX 1050Ti 4GB SFF	Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB	MSI GTX 1060 Aero ITX OC
CUDA Cores	768	768	1280	1280
Base Clock Speeds	1290MHz	1290MHz	1506MHz	1544MHz
Boost Clock Speeds	1392MHz	1392MHz	1708MHz	1759MHz
Memory Fequency	7008MHz	7008MHz	8008MHz	8008MHz
Memory Bus	128-bit	128-bit	192-bit	192-bit
Memory Cappacity	4GB	4GB	6GB	6GB
Power Connections	PCI Only	PCI only	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin

What these two GPUs provide their users with is a lot of utility, whether you want to upgrade a small server, office PC or HTPC with a gaming GPU, or upgrade an ageing pre-built system with some much-needed GPU horsepower.Â

These GPUs are designed to place gaming graphics into systems that do not support traditional GPU form factors. Despite their small size these GPUs are both cool and quiet and are certainly not going to overpower their users with high noise levels.Â

MSI are also offering a GTX 1050 version of their half-height GTX 1050Ti, with both GTX 1060 3GB and GTX 1070 8GB versions of their new Aero ITX GPU designs.Â

Right now MSI’s GTX 1050/1050Ti SFF GPUs are already available to purchase at Overclockers UK for prices of Â£119.99 and Â£149.99 respectively. MSI’s Aero ITX series of GPU are expected to hit retail shelves within the next few weeks.Â

You can join the discussion on MSI’s new GTX 1050 Ti SFF and GTX 1060 6GB Aero ITX on the OC3D Forums.Â