Review on ASUS Cerberus GeForce Graphics Cerberus GTX1050Ti O4G by Wiktor Stpie ᠌

Name: ASUS Cerberus GeForce Graphics Cerberus GTX1050Ti O4G
Item: ASUS Cerberus GeForce Graphics Cerberus GTX1050Ti O4G
Rating: 5

May 13, 2023

I am amazed at how well made the product is, just magical!

The card was originally bought more as a plug (there used to be 5700xt, 3060 ti), with the ability to rarely launch games with more or less comfortable picture quality and FPS level.

I got a good copy + Micron memory chips.
On the GPU, it works without problems at frequencies of 1516/1630 MHz (stock 1304/1418), on memory at 2252 MHz (stock 1752, hunix chips will have a ceiling of 1850-1900).
It doesn't get hot, it doesn't make noise.
The increase in FPS relative to the stock (non-OC version) was 10-13%, which is not bad for Pascal.
The final performance in Full HD was a pleasant surprise, as for a budget card (in fairness, this is close to the reference performance, since the "banding" is redundant - CPU i7 9700k 5.0 GHz + DDR 4000 MHz CL 16). On more balanced components, performance will be slightly lower.

Pros

+ Good overclocking potential of a particular model (naturally, in comparison with 1050 Ti analogues from other vendors); + Price-performance as of May 2022 Since the mining boom, the card has risen in price by 15-20% (you can still buy it for 15-17 thousand), while the prices for cards of the next step in performance (GTX 1060, RX480) have skyrocketed and are much worse in performance per; + Not noisy, heats up within 66 gr. on stock fan control settings.

Cons

- When buying non-new cards (produced more than a year ago), there is a risk of running into revisions with Hynix memory - and this will be the worst option among all 1050 ti both in terms of overclocking potential, and in terms of performance, and in terms of temperature (Hunix - hello, you again in a puddle :) - The lack of an additional 6-pin power supply is more of a minus than a plus. If you come across a not very successful copy that requires more voltage, the entire overclocking will run into the power limit set by Nvidia on the card at 100w (and even then, provided that you have good enough PSUs and a motherboard that "spits" on the specifications for the limit through Pci-e at 75w ). The card will simply reset frequencies, and you will get a broken frame graph instead of an increase in Fps.