NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1709MHz vs 1455MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +134%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

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GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GP104

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

120W

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

1x 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

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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