NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 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

1261 points

19% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

28 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

17 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

19 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

14 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2108 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2038 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points

194.26 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15058 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13627 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17020 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16368 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16857 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16340 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

18409 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

18023 points

0.56% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

1006 MHz

0.70% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

1058 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

160% significantly lower TDP

195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

33.86 Gigapixels/s

85% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

135.4 Gigatexels/s

197% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

1536

139% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

220% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 586

246th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2012 March

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 680 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 680 beats the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 680 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 680 is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q.