NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA 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)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +110%

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1050

1760

GeForce GTX 970 +105%

3622

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050

8

GeForce GTX 970 +87%

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050

18

GeForce GTX 970 +66%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050

31

GeForce GTX 970 +29%

40

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050

38

GeForce GTX 970 +15%

44

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 +52%

149

GeForce GTX 970

98

GeForce GTX 1050

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GeForce GTX 970

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

1354 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1664

40

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GM204

GP107-300-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

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 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

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