NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GP107 GM204
GPU variant GP107-400-A1 GM204-200-A1
Architecture Pascal Maxwell 2.0
Foundry Samsung TSMC
Manufacturing process 14 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 3,300 million 5,200 million
Die size 132 mm² 398 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 25th, 2016 Sep 19th, 2014
Generation GeForce 10 GeForce 900
Predecessor GeForce 900 GeForce 700
Successor GeForce 20 GeForce 10
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 139 USD 329 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 58 in our database 111 in our database

Clocks

Base clock 1291 MHz 1050 MHz
Boost clock 1392 MHz 1178 MHz
Memory clock 1752 MHz 7 Gbps effective 1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 112.1 GB/s 224.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 768 1664
TMUs 48 104
ROPs 32 56
SM count 6
Cache L1 48 KB (per SM) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 1024 KB 2 MB
SMM count 13

Performance

Pixel rate 44.54 GPixel/s 65.97 GPixel/s
Texture rate 66.82 GTexel/s 122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 33.41 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance 2.138 TFLOPS 3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 66.82 GFLOPS (1:32) 122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 145 mm 5.7 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches 111 mm 4.4 inches
TDP 75 W 148 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 300 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Board number PG210 PG401
Height 40 mm 1.6 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
CUDA 6.1 5.2
Shader model 6.4 6.4

Other Features

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