NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1518MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +68%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970 +50%

15

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970 +50%

30

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970 +29%

40

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

31

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970 +44%

42

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

29

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB +47%

65

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970 +6%

98

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

92

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

May 2018

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1392 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1518 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

96bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

84.10GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

1664

Shading Units

768

104

TMUs

48

56

ROPs

24

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.43 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.86 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

36.43 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.332 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

72.86 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

GP107-301-K1-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

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