NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 169.99
$ 195.01 significantly less expensive
$ 365.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points
4905 points
323% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS
94 FPS
68 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
79 FPS
61 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
62 FPS
44 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
64 FPS
50 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points
7547 points
263% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points
606.98 points
255% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points
51531 points
199% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points
23824 points
204% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points
54640 points
194% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points
66552 points
270% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points
23824 points
204% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points
60120 points
234% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points
65170 points
279% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz
1607 MHz
18% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz
1733 MHz
19% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB
8 GiB
300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s
320.3 GB/s
185% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
139% significantly lower TDP
180 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s
110.9 Gigapixels/s
138% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s
277.3 Gigatexels/s
376% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS
8.87 TFLOPS
376% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
2560
300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
160
300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
64
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586
104th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October
2016 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 1080 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 beats the GeForce GTX 1050 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 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 1080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1080 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 is better than the GeForce GTX 1050.

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