NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 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
$ 168.70
$ 1.29 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points
127% significantly better overall score
510 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points
135% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
881 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points
125% significantly higher Blender score
75.74 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points
176% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
6223 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points
102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
3858 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points
129% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
8083 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points
130% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
7772 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points
131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
3383 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points
124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
7995 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points
108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
8246 points

Specifications

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
29% slightly higher memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
46% significantly lower TDP
110 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s
213% significantly higher pixel rate
14.85 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s
59.39 Gigatexels/s
2% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
768
20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
64
60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
100% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586
325th 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
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti at 110 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 over the GeForce GTX 650 Ti.

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