GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs GeForce GTX 960 OEM

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 May 2018
GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Nov 2015
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 960 OEM

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBGeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-301-A1)vsGM204 (GTX 960 OEM)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders768vs1280
Compute Units6vs10
Core clock1392 MHzvs924 MHz
ROPs24vs48
TMUs48vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBGeForce GTX 960 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width96 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBGeForce GTX 960 OEM
TDP75 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date21 May 2018vs26 Nov 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    36.43 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
    44.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    72.86 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
    73.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    84.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
    120.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    2332.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
    2365.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better