NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA TITAN X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA TITAN X 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 169.99
$ 127.58 significantly less expensive
$ 297.57

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points
6843 points
490% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS
141 FPS
115 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
111 FPS
94 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
87 FPS
69 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
89 FPS
74 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points
855.25 points
401% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points
56205 points
226% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points
60601 points
226% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points
84305 points
369% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points
67320 points
274% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points
80852 points
371% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz
1417 MHz
4% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB
12 GiB
499% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
233% significantly lower TDP
250 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586
70th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
-

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 vs TITAN X comparison

In our benchmarks, the TITAN X beats the GeForce GTX 1050 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the TITAN X 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the TITAN X has significantly more memory with 12 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 1050 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the TITAN X at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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

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