NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150, 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

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

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

109% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

990 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

98% significantly higher Blender score

86.10 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9799 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10459 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9867 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10175 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9382 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

1469 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

1532 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

25 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

89% significantly higher pixel rate

24.51 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

58% significantly higher texture rate

36.77 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

66% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586

306th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2017 May

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

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce MX150 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 GPU is faster than the GeForce MX150 in gaming.

The GeForce MX150 has a slightly 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 MX150 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce MX150 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 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 MX150.