GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050

95 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 560 Ti .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 560 Ti

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1050

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GTX 560 Ti
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsGF114 (GF114-400-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders640vs384
Compute Units5vs8
Core clock1354 MHzvs823 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs40vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GTX 560 Ti
TDP75 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs25 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better