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NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1050 / 1050TI MINING PERFORMANCE REVIEW

With the recent shortage of AMD GPUs, many people started to look for Nvidia alternatives.
While few miners would invest into Nvidia GPUs half year ago, times have changed and now even serious medium-sized mining farm owners is considering those GPUs.
In this article I will review GTX 1050 / 1050Ti performance, which are two GPU models that came to replace the old GTX 750 Ti and the GTX 950. Both new GPUs have the Pascal architecture and share many things in common; that being said, there are some crucial differences between them too.

COMMON GROUND AND DIFFERENCES

Both are the first two NVidia GPU models that are manufactured using 14nm technology. This means that both have great overclocking potential. The only thing that limits overclocking is the TDP.
Either model can be used to mine a number of algorithms, some of which can be rather profitable. I will get back to it in a minute.
Now, the main difference is in the VRAM size. GTX 1050Ti comes with 4GB VRAM, which makes it suitable for mining Ethereum. On the other hand, the GTX 1050 comes with 2GB VRAM, which means that it has no value for ETH mining whatsoever. Back in the day, when the DAG file size was less than 2GB people could use 2GB GPUs to mine ETH, but those days are gone.
In fact, according to calculations, in a couple of months 3GB GPUs will stop working for ETH mining too. But I won’t get into that here.


MINING HASHRATE AND PERFORMANCE

There is a lot of info on the web about the mentioned card models. While most reviews are legit and real, you might see a huge difference in numbers when it comes to hashrate. It looks like hashrate depends a lot on the miner version. Make sure you keep an eye on the review date first!
Another fact that seems to affect hashrate is the type of miner you’re using. Some people noticed that EWBF performs better than Nicehash when it comes to zCash mining.
As it happens with most GPUs, hashrate is also affected by the type of VRAM used, which is defined by its manufacturer. So far, it is certain that Samsung memories usually perform slightly better than others.
Finally, some users speculate that 6-Pin models boost better. While I couldn’t prove this right or wrong, it might make sense. If you see any other review, I strongly encourage you to check that.

GTX 1050TI

Here are some working configurations you can try:

SETUP #1 MSI GEFORCE GTX 1050 TI GAMING X 4G MINING PERFORMANCE

RECOMMENDED HARDWARE FOR 6X GTX 1050 TI MINING RIG

Stock performance, mining hashrate and power consumption
POWER CONSUMPTION FOR SYSTEM IS AROUND 40W
Stock clocks

MINING ETHEREUM ONLY WITH OVERCLOCK (CLAYMORE ETHEREUM MINER)

MSI Afterburner
  • Mining Hashrate 14.6 Mh/s
  • Clocks +150/+1000
  • Power Limit 80%
  • Power draw from wall 55w
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