NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1139MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +82%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

1.458 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970M +9%

2283

GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

2079

Blender

GeForce GTX 970M +32%

208

GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

157

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970M +45%

54

GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

37

GeForce GTX 970M

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GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2018

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1139 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

5

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.22 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

45.56 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

22.78 GFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1458 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

45.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP107

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N17P-G0-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

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

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

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.4

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