GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs GeForce GTX 965M

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 965M, which comes with clock speeds of 944 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 965M		60 Watts
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 965M overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 22016 (34%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be just a bit (about 11%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 965M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		60416 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6400 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 965M		30208 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3200 (11%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video 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 amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.