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GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 970M

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti features clock speeds of 1290 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 970M, which has a core clock speed of 924 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1280 SPUs, 80 TAUs, 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 1050 Ti		7734 points
GeForce GTX 970M		7520 points
	Difference: 214 (3%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should theoretically be a little bit superior to the GeForce GTX 970M in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M will be a little bit (more or less 19%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		73920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12000 (19%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M is just a bit (more or less 7%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, and capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		44352 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3072 (7%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model	GeForce GTX 1050 Ti	GeForce GTX 970M
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	October 2016	October 7 2014
Code Name	GP107-400	GM204
Memory	4096 MB	3072 MB
Core Speed	1290 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	61920 Mtexels/sec	73920 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	41280 Mpixels/sec	44352 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	768	1280
Texture Mapping Units	48	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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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