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Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released September, 2014
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
- 1.1 GHz
- 4 GB GDDR5
7.5 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!MSI's GTX 970 Gaming is available online for $350, which is a $20 price premium for the overclock out of the box and the improved cooler.
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Released October, 2016
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
- 1.4 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
6.9 Out of 10
by www.tweaktown.com (Oct, 2016)NVIDIA's impressive Pascal architecture has some nice tricks under its 16nm FinFET hood, but the Twin Frozr VI cooler is 40% quieter than its predecessor (the Twin Frozr V), and it also keeps the card 20% cooler.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 970 vs 1050 among all GPUs
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly better PassMark score | 8,563 | vs | 4,443 | Around 95% better PassMark score | |||
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| Higher memory bandwidth | 224.4 GB/s | vs | 112.1 GB/s | More than 2x higher memory bandwidth | |||
| More memory | 4,096 MB | vs | 2,048 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 3,494 GFLOPS | vs | 1,862 GFLOPS | Around 90% better floating-point performance | |||
| Significantly better fire strike factor score | 72.7 | vs | 41.35 | More than 75% better fire strike factor score | |||
| Higher texture rate | 109.2 GTexel/s | vs | 58.2 GTexel/s | Around 90% higher texture rate | |||
| More render output processors | 56 | vs | 32 | 24 more render output processors | |||
| More shading units | 1,664 | vs | 640 | 1024 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 104 | vs | 40 | 64 more texture mapping units | |||
| Better bitcoin mining score | 487.83 mHash/s | vs | 215.14 mHash/s | More than 2.2x better bitcoin mining score | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 58.8 GPixel/s | vs | 46.56 GPixel/s | More than 25% higher pixel rate | |||
| Higher battlefield 4 framerate | 88.6 | vs | 54 | Around 65% higher battlefield 4 framerate | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 4,375 | vs | 2,863 | Around 55% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Slightly wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
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| Significantly higher clock speed | 1,354 MHz | vs | 1,050 MHz | Around 30% higher clock speed | |||
| Higher turbo clock speed | 1,455 MHz | vs | 1,178 MHz | Around 25% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Lower TDP | 75W | vs | 148W | Around 50% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 970 vs 1050
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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