NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 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

1% slightly better overall score

1038 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

22 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

Identical

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

13 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2108 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1900 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

122.99 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15058 points

15998 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17020 points

18233 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16857 points

18345 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

16999 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16578 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

1024 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

1188 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

5% slightly higher memory bandwidth

105.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

20% slightly lower TDP

90 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

38.02 Gigapixels/s

108% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

57.02 Gigatexels/s

25% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

768

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20% slightly 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

261st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 950 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 950 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 950 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950 at 90 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 1050 Max-Q is better than the GeForce GTX 950.