GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 970

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 970, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 1664 SPUs as well as 104 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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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 970		10867 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 4210 (63%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (93%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 970 will be 95% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 109312 (95%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 should be much (more or less 102%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55040 (102%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23872 (55%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.