GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

CORE STATE GP107

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1455 MHz

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Pascal

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

122

369

geekbench_metal

7,823

13,595

geekbench_opencl

17,471

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

15,782

31,001

passmark_directx_10

24

46

passmark_directx_11

38

71

passmark_directx_12

20

41

passmark_directx_9

83

143

passmark_g2d

457

764

passmark_g3d

5,028

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

2,091

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 1050

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

640

1,664 +160.0%

Shaders

640

1,664 +160.0%

TMUs

40

104 +160.0%

ROPs

32

56 +75.0%

SM Count

5

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Clocks

Base Clock

1354 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

4,096 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

112.1 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

46.56 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

58.20 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1.862 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

58.20 GFLOPS (1:32)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

29.10 GFLOPS (1:64)

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Power

TDP

75 W

148 W

TDP (W)

75

148 +97.3%

Suggested PSU

250 W

300 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Pascal

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GP107

GM204

Generation

GeForce 10

GeForce 900

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

3,300 million

5,200 million

Die Size

132 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

Samsung

TSMC

Density

25.0M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

6.1

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

145 mm 5.7 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

109 USD

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 900

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 20

GeForce 10

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