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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 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

1159 points

9% slightly better overall score

1057 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

12 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

2108 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

0.51% slightly higher Blender score

169.72 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

15058 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17020 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16857 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

16153 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

17923 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

35% slightly higher core clock speed

999 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

27% slightly higher boost clock speed

1139 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

46.56 Gigapixels/s

155% significantly higher pixel rate

18.22 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

27% slightly higher texture rate

45.56 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

Identical

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

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

254th 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 vs GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1050 beats the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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 boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1050 and the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1050 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q.