GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 1050
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1455MHz vs 1178MHz)
Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+110%
3920
GeForce GTX 1050
1862
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
+110%
3646
GeForce GTX 1050
1734
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
+230%
1683
GeForce GTX 1050
509
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
+87%
15
GeForce GTX 1050
8
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
+66%
30
GeForce GTX 1050
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
+29%
40
GeForce GTX 1050
31
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
+15%
44
GeForce GTX 1050
38
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
GeForce GTX 1050
+52%
149
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Oct 2016
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1354 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1455 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1752 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
112.1GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
5
1664
Shading Units
640
104
TMUs
40
56
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.56 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
58.20 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.10 GFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.862 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
58.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
75W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GP107
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GP107-300-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
3.3 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
132 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
5.2
CUDA
6.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
