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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

GPU Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB video cards based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

Newer Launch Date: October 2016 (October 2016 vs August 2016)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Higher Boost Clock: 1708MHz (1455MHz vs 1708MHz)
Larger Memory Size: 3GB (2GB vs 3GB)
Higher Bandwidth: 192.2 GB/s (112.1 GB/s vs 192.2 GB/s)
More Shading Units: 1152 (640 vs 1152)

Basic

NVIDIA

Label Name

NVIDIA

October 2016

Launch Date

August 2016

Desktop

Platform

Desktop

GeForce GTX 1050

Model Name

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 10

1354MHz

Base Clock

1506MHz

1455MHz

Boost Clock

1708MHz

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

3,300 million

Transistors

4,400 million

TMUs

Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

Memory Specifications

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.

192bit

1752MHz

Memory Clock

2002MHz

112.1 GB/s

Bandwidth

Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.

192.2 GB/s

Display and Media

1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.

81.98 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.

123.0 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.

61.49 GFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

123.0 GFLOPS

1.899 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

3.856 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

SM Count

Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.

640

Shading Units

The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.

1152

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024KB

L2 Cache

1536KB

75W

TDP

120W

1.3

Vulkan Version

Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.

1.3

3.0

OpenCL Version

3.0

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

6.1

CUDA

6.1

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

ROPs

The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

250W

Suggested PSU

300W