NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 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 970

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

974 points

2262 points

132% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

21 FPS

47 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

35 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

31 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

11 FPS

28 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

226.56 points

289.94 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18936 points

25908 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20678 points

29153 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18970 points

34107 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19975 points

29277 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18555 points

32348 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1151 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

1050 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

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

93% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

41.31 Gigapixels/s

65.97 Gigapixels/s

59% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.97 Gigatexels/s

122.5 Gigatexels/s

97% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

3.92 TFLOPS

97% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1664

116% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

116% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

266th of 586

193rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2014 September

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 970 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q 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 1050 Ti Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q.