NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

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

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1455MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +29%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960 +29%

2284

GeForce GTX 1050

1760

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960 +25%

10

GeForce GTX 1050

8

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960 +38%

25

GeForce GTX 1050

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960 +12%

35

GeForce GTX 1050

31

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce GTX 1050 +112%

149

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GTX 1050

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Oct 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1354 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

5

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.56 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.20 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

29.10 GFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.862 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

58.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GP107

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP107-300-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Board Design

120W

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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