GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs GeForce GTX 295

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 May 2018
GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
GeForce GTX 295
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2009
GeForce GTX 295

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

214 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 295 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 295

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBGeForce GTX 295
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-301-A1)vsGT200B (G200-400-B3)
Fab Process14 nmvs55 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs470 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs1,400 million
Shaders768vs240
Compute Units6vs10
Core clock1392 MHzvs576 MHz
ROPs24vs28
TMUs48vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBGeForce GTX 295
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width96 bitvs448 bit x2
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs896 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBGeForce GTX 295
TDP75 wattsvs289 watts
Release Date21 May 2018vs8 Jan 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    36.43 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 295
    32.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    72.86 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 295
    92.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    84.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 295
    224.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    2332.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 295
    1192.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better