GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GT 720M

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
GeForce GT 720M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 1 Apr 2013
GeForce GT 720M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 720M

42 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1050 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 720M
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsGF117 (N14M-GE)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs585 million
Shaders640vs96
Compute Units5vs2
Core clock1354 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs40vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GT 720M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050GeForce GT 720M
TDP75 wattsvs33 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs1 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720M
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720M
    10.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720M
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720M
    240.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better