Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Graphics Card Review

Overclocking, Noise, Heat and Power

Overclocking was pretty simple on this card, with a high factory overclock available by hitting the Boost button. The card would clock higher manually, but didn’t seem to be stable, and it seems iGame did a good job right out of the box. 3DMark boosted from 7285 to 7805, an improvement of around 7.2%, which is about the same ratio that the core clock was also increased.

3DMark Firestrike

Acoustic Performance

At stock, the card was really quite, clocking just 44 dBa and this increased to 46 dBa once overclocked. In all honesty, it was pretty quiet in both tests given the smaller cooler design.

Thermal Performance

The cooler design, heatpipes, good fans and the backplate work very well, with the card reading just 54c under full load in Unigine. While overclocking took that to 61c, that’s still pretty darn cool for this chipset, and I’m very happy with the results overall.

Power Consumption

Amazingly, the card uses less power than the GTX 1050 we tested, hitting just 114 watts under full load while overclocked. That’s barely any power at all for gaming, and again, extremely impressive.