GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 970M

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 970M, which features a core clock speed of 924 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 48 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 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 should in theory be just a 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 is much (more or less 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 should be just a bit (about 2%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1050, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, 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 worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.