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

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

1456 points

37% slightly better overall score

1057 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

12 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2341 points

11% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2108 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

215.07 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

169.72 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

20616 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

15058 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17020 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21230 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16857 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

16153 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20196 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

17923 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

29% slightly higher core clock speed

999 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz

22% slightly higher boost clock speed

1139 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

Identical

112.1 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

Identical

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

44.54 Gigapixels/s

144% significantly higher pixel rate

18.22 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s

46% significantly higher texture rate

45.56 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

20% slightly more shading units

640

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

237th of 586

260th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2018 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

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q specs and performance

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

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 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 also 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. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q.