GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 970M

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 970M, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 924 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 1280 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 970M		7520 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 863 (13%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 should be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 18688 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M should be a lot (about 36%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		73920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19760 (36%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M is a small bit (about 2%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1050, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		44352 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1024 (2%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.