NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

974 points

2058 points

111% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

21 FPS

42 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

33 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

27 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

11 FPS

29 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

226.56 points

284.61 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18936 points

31922 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20678 points

33958 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18970 points

33939 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19975 points

33375 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18555 points

32433 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1151 MHz

1506 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1291 MHz

1708 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

41.31 Gigapixels/s

81.98 Gigapixels/s

98% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.97 Gigatexels/s

123 Gigatexels/s

98% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

3.94 TFLOPS

98% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1152

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

266th of 586

206th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2016 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

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB beats the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q.