GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GT 545

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
GeForce GT 545
Memory: 1536Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2011
GeForce GT 545

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 545

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 545
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsGF116 (GF116-400-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders640vs144
Compute Units5vs3
Core clock1354 MHzvs720 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs40vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GT 545
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1536 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GT 545
TDP75 wattsvs70 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs14 May 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 545
    4.32 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 545
    17.30 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 545
    38.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 545
    414.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better