NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 645

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 645 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1057 points

255% significantly better overall score

297 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

24 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points

313% significantly higher Blender score

41.03 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15058 points

314% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

3630 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17020 points

226% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5217 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

206% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5274 points

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

300% significantly more memory

1 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

64 W

17% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 586

377th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 645 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 645 in our tests.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 645 has a slightly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q over the GeForce GTX 645.