NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 85.01 significantly less expensive

$ 255.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

11% slightly better overall score

1038 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

22 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

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

13 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1900 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

122.99 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

15998 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

7172 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

18233 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

18345 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7172 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

16999 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16578 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

1024 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

22% slightly higher boost clock speed

1188 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

Identical

2 GiB

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

5% slightly higher memory bandwidth

105.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

20% slightly lower TDP

90 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

22% slightly higher pixel rate

38.02 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

2% slightly higher texture rate

57.02 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

2% slightly better floating point performance

1.82 TFLOPS

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

20% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

253rd of 586

261st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2015 August

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

GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 950 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 950 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1050 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 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, the GeForce GTX 1050 has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950 at 90 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 over the GeForce GTX 950.