NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2018
Jan 2015
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1139 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1752 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
112.1GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
5
—
Shading Units
640
1024
TMUs
40
64
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
18.22 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
45.56 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
22.78 GFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
1458 GFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
45.56 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP107
GM206
GPU Variant
N17P-G0-A1
GM206-300-A1
Architecture
Pascal
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3.3 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
132 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
75W
120W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
6.1
5.2
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
2,300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,025
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
35
GTA 5 1080p
—
70
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.