Nvidia's entry-level GPU gets the Twin Frozr treatment. Nvidia's add-in-board partners are so accustomed to working with high-end GPUs that you wonder whether they'd quite know what to do when a tiny 135mm² die lands on their doorstep. The arrival of the GeForce GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti puts manufacturers in that very predicament, as the entry-level GP107 GPU is best suited to small, compact cards that require no additional power and are competitively priced.

The natural tendency, however, is to repurpose existing high-end designs onto a slightly smaller PCB, and MSI has done exactly that with the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Gaming X.