GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 970M

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
GeForce GTX 970M
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 7 Oct 2014
GeForce GTX 970M

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 970M

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 970M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 970M
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-400-A1)vsGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders768vs1280
Compute Units6vs10
Core clock1290 MHzvs1038 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs48vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 970M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 970M
TDP75 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs7 Oct 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    41.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    49.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    61.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    83.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    120.30 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    1981.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    2657.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better