GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1392MHz vs 1178MHz)
Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
2138
GeForce GTX 970
+83%
3920
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
2353
GeForce GTX 970
+54%
3646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
1093
GeForce GTX 970
+53%
1683
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
11
GeForce GTX 970
+36%
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
20
GeForce GTX 970
+50%
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
28
GeForce GTX 970
+42%
40
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
+79%
176
GeForce GTX 970
98
Graphics Card
Oct 2016
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1291 MHz
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1392 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1752 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.1GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
6
SM Count
-
768
Shading Units
1664
48
TMUs
104
32
ROPs
56
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
44.54 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
66.82 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
33.41 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.138 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
66.82 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
148W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP107
GPU Name
GM204
GP107-400-A1
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.3 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
132 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
