NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1139MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

1.458 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M +78%

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

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GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

941 MHz

1139 MHz

Boost Clock

967 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1344

40

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

45.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

22.78 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1458 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

45.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GK104

N17P-G0-A1

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

6.1

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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