nvidia

Brand

2GB GDDR5

Memory

640

Cores

112.1 GB/s

Bandwidth

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

$109 Oct 2016 View Details

nvidia

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

1664

Cores

224.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

$329 Sep 2014 View Details

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

2GB GDDR5 75W $109 Oct 2016

GeForce GTX 1050

$109 • Oct 2016

GeForce GTX 970

$329 • Sep 2014

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

4GB GDDR5 148W $329 Sep 2014

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Memory Size	2 GB	4 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
TDP	75 W	148 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1455 MHz	1178 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	112.1 GB/s	224.4 GB/s
Process Size	14nm	28nm
Architecture	Pascal	Maxwell 2.0
Shading Units	640	1664
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	40	104
ROPs	32	56
Memory Bus	128-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1752 MHz	1753 MHz
Pixel Rate	46.56 GPixel/s	65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	112.1 GTexel/s	224.4 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	1.862 GFLOPS	3.92 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	1.00 MB	2.00 MB
Die Size	132 mm²	398 mm²
Transistors	3300 Million	5200 Million
Required PSU	250 W	300 W
Power Connectors	None	2x 6-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12.1
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	Samsung	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

1831

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

3574 (+95%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

20580

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

28989 (+41%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

30 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

46.8 FPS (+56%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

5025

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

9637 (+92%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Game Benchmarks Comparison (9 benchmarks)

PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2019

7 2018 • Sports • Konami Digital Entertainment

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+66%)

AVG 108 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+74%)

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+71%)

AVG 36 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

Winner

Loser

Darksiders III

8.7 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Gunfire Games

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+81%)

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 36 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+75%)

AVG 42 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 17 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+64%)

AVG 18 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 11 FPS

MIN 7 FPS

Winner

Loser

Call of Cthulhu

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Cyanide Studio

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+68%)

AVG 99 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+73%)

AVG 69 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 40 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+70%)

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 16 FPS

Winner

Loser

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Wins!

Based on 9 benchmarks across 3 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

+71.1%

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 970