NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1455MHz vs 1201MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +32%

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

5

SM Count

-

640

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GM206

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

228 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

6.7

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