NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

nvidia

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

1664

Cores

224.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 970

N/A Sep 2014 View Details

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nvidia

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

768

Cores

112.1 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

N/A Oct 2016 View Details

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

4GB GDDR5 148W N/A Sep 2014

GeForce GTX 970

$329 • Sep 2014

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

$139 • Oct 2016

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

4GB GDDR5 75W N/A Oct 2016

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Memory Size	4 GB	4 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
TDP	148 W	75 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1178 MHz	1392 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	224.4 GB/s	112.1 GB/s
Process Size	28nm	14nm
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	Pascal
Shading Units	1664	768
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	104	48
ROPs	56	32
Memory Bus	256-bit	128-bit
Memory Clock	1753 MHz	1752 MHz
Pixel Rate	65.97 GPixel/s	44.54 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	224.4 GTexel/s	112.1 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	3.92 GFLOPS	2.138 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	1.00 MB
Die Size	398 mm²	132 mm²
Transistors	5200 Million	3300 Million
Required PSU	300 W	250 W
Power Connectors	2x 6-pin	None
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	TSMC	Samsung

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

3574 (+55%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

2312

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

28989 (+37%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

21180

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

GFXBench 5.0

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

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

46.8 FPS (+36%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

34.4 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

9637 (+52%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

6327

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Game Benchmarks Comparison (252 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+89%)

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+90%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 89 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+43%)

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+59%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 92 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 57 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+56%)

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+55%)

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+40%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+44%)

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 27 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+57%)

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 14 FPS

MIN 11 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+49%)

AVG 73 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 970 (+50%)

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+40%)

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 15 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

Winner

Loser

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 • Action, RPG • Games Farm

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+61%)

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 45 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+61%)

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 28 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+75%)

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 12 FPS

MIN 11 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+44%)

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+50%)

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 970 (+53%)

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

AVG 17 FPS

MIN 15 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Wins!

Based on 249 benchmarks across 84 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 970

+51.7%

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti