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GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 970M

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 features a GPU core speed of 1354 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 970M, which comes with GPU clock speed of 924 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1280 Stream Processors, 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

The GeForce GTX 1050, in theory, should be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 970M overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M will be a lot (approximately 36%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970M is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce GTX 970M
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year October 2016 October 7 2014
Code Name GP107-300 GM204
Memory 2048 MB 3072 MB
Core Speed 1354 MHz 924 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 96000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 54160 Mtexels/sec 73920 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 43328 Mpixels/sec 44352 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 1280
Texture Mapping Units 40 80
Render Output Units 32 48
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3300 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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