GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce 820M

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
GeForce 820M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 21 Mar 2015
GeForce 820M

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 820M

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 820M
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsGK107 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders640vs384
Compute Units5vs2
Core clock1354 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs40vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce 820M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs901 MHz
1802 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce 820M
TDP75 wattsvs45 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs21 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • GeForce 820M
    6.48 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • GeForce 820M
    25.92 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce 820M
    28.83 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 820M
    622.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better