NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB, 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 960

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

974 points

1419 points

45% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

21 FPS

29 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

22 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

20 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

11 FPS

17 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

226.56 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

167.72 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18936 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

17784 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20678 points

21072 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18970 points

22380 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19975 points

0.90% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19796 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18555 points

20845 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1151 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

1127 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1291 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

1178 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

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

112.2 GB/s

0.09% slightly 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

9% slightly higher pixel rate

37.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.97 Gigatexels/s

75.39 Gigatexels/s

21% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

2.41 TFLOPS

21% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1024

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

266th of 586

239th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2015 January

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 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 960 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 960 beats the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q 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 1050 Ti Max-Q 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 960 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q.