NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

15% slightly better overall score

1001 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

15 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1804 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

147.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13861 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16496 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16483 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15820 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16599 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

944 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

26% slightly higher boost clock speed

1150 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

39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

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

26% slightly higher pixel rate

36.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

73.6 Gigatexels/s

26% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

2.36 TFLOPS

26% 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

254th of 586

263rd 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 965M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1050 beats the GeForce GTX 965M in gaming performance.

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 slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 965M has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 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 965M 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 over the GeForce GTX 965M.