NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • 5x more core clock speed: 999 MHz vs 200 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 150 nm
  • 64x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 64 MB
  • 21.1x more memory clock speed: 7008 MHz vs 332 MHz
  • 507x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4056 vs 8
  • Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 289 vs 247
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 January 2018 vs 6 March 2003
Core clock speed 999 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz vs 332 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4056 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark 289 vs 247

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

  • 15.1x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 53.12 GTexel / s
Texture fill rate 800 MTexel / s vs 53.12 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4056
8
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
289
247
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100
PassMark - G3D Mark 4056 8
PassMark - G2D Mark 289 247
Geekbench - OpenCL 12690
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6614
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1341
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6614
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1341
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2076

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

Essentials

Architecture Pascal Rankine
Code name GP107 NV34 A1
Launch date 3 January 2018 6 March 2003
Place in performance rating 695 701
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1328 MHz
Core clock speed 999 MHz 200 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,700 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 640
Texture fill rate 53.12 GTexel / s 800 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt
Transistor count 3,300 million 45 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 AGP 8x
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 9.0a
OpenGL 4.6 1.5 (2.1)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 112.1 GB / s 2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz 332 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR
Shared memory 0