NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M, 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

1159 points

247% significantly better overall score

334 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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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

312% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

503 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

277% significantly higher Blender score

45.23 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

205% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

5629 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

212% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5938 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

244% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5207 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6089 points

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

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

256th of 593

368th of 593

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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce 840M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1050 beats the GeForce 840M in gaming performance.

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

In addition, the GeForce 840M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1050 is faster than the GeForce 840M.