NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 95.01 significantly less expensive

$ 265.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

1419 points

22% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

29 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

22 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

20 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

17 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

2293 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

167.72 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

17784 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

8773 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

21072 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

22380 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

8773 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

19796 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

20845 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

1127 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

23% slightly higher boost clock speed

1178 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

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

112.2 GB/s

0.09% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

23% slightly higher pixel rate

37.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

75.39 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

2.41 TFLOPS

29% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

1024

60% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

60% 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

253rd of 586

239th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2015 January

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 960 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in gaming.

In our comparison, 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 960 has significantly more memory with 4 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 960 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 960 over the GeForce GTX 1050.