NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 169.99

$ 1083.26 significantly less expensive

$ 1253.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

86% significantly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

30 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

Identical

18 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

12% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1841 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

184.30 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11969 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

7421 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14780 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14358 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

6454 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15314 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16269 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

980 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

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

126% significantly lower TDP

170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

69% significantly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

109.8 Gigatexels/s

88% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

2.63 TFLOPS

41% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

1344

110% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

180% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586

308th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 670 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 670 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly 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 significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 670 has significantly more memory with 4 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 1050 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 670 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1050 is faster than the GeForce GTX 670.