GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 970M

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 970M, which comes with GPU core speed of 924 MHz, and 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		7734 points
GeForce GTX 970M		7520 points
	Difference: 214 (3%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should in theory be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 18688 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M is a little bit (about 19%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		73920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12000 (19%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970M is superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M		44352 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3072 (7%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.