NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

3236 points

179% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

73 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

46 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

54 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

34 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

4964 points

139% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

756.05 points

343% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

61528 points

257% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

54310 points

192% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

48658 points

171% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

56770 points

215% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

54216 points

215% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

18% slightly higher core clock speed

1140 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1335 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

288 GB/s

156% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

60 W

25% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

64.08 Gigapixels/s

37% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

128.2 Gigatexels/s

120% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

4.10 TFLOPS

120% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

1536

139% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

253rd of 586

145th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 1660 Ti Max-Q benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 in our tests.

In our comparison, 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 60 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 1660 Ti Max-Q is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050.