NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 169.99
Identical
$ 169.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points
345% significantly better overall score
260 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points
365% significantly higher Blender score
36.65 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points
503% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
2853 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points
297% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
1967 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points
379% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3876 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points
395% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3620 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points
301% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
1947 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points
380% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3736 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points
338% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3914 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

253rd of 586
397th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GT 640 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 640 in our tests.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 is better than the GeForce GT 640.

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