NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

Price

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$ 206.47

$ 128.53 significantly less expensive

$ 335.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1456 points

2077 points

42% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

43 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

34 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

27 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

27 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2341 points

3636 points

55% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

215.07 points

370.89 points

72% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

20616 points

31129 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834 points

13531 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192 points

32388 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21230 points

31476 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834 points

13531 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points

32365 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20196 points

30916 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

1708 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 586

205th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

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

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 1060 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.