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GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 970M

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a GPU core clock speed of 1290 MHz, and the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 768 Stream Processors, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 970M, which has GPU core speed of 924 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1280 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

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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

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 970M overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M is just a bit (more or less 19%) more effective at 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%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, and also capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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