NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points
267% significantly better overall score
315 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points
312% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
503 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points
277% significantly higher Blender score
45.23 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points
205% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
5629 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points
212% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
5938 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points
244% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
5207 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6089 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points
226% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5261 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz
31% slightly higher core clock speed
1029 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz
29% slightly higher boost clock speed
1124 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s
599% significantly higher memory bandwidth
16.02 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
33 W
127% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s
417% significantly higher pixel rate
8.99 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s
223% significantly higher texture rate
17.98 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
66% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
150% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
300% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

257th of 590
376th of 590

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October
2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

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