NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 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 (Notebook)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • 2.9x more core clock speed: 1354 MHz vs 475 MHz
  • 31.4x more texture fill rate: 59.72 GTexel / s vs 1.9 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 130 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
  • 7.4x more memory clock speed: 7008 MHz vs 950 MHz
  • 75.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4463 vs 59
  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 292 vs 274
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 February 2017 vs 23 October 2003
Core clock speed 1354 MHz vs 475 MHz
Texture fill rate 59.72 GTexel / s vs 1.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz vs 950 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4463 vs 59
PassMark - G2D Mark 292 vs 274

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

  • Around 1% lower typical power consumption: 74 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 74 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4463
59
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
292
274
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark 4463 59
PassMark - G2D Mark 292 274
Geekbench - OpenCL 17476
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 67.209
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 799.414
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 30.523
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 223.683
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7239
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7239
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2084

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

Essentials

Architecture Pascal Rankine
Code name GP106B NV38 A1
Launch date 1 February 2017 23 October 2003
Place in performance rating 629 615
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $499

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1493 MHz
Core clock speed 1354 MHz 475 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,911 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 640
Texture fill rate 59.72 GTexel / s 1.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 74 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million 135 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 AGP 8x
Laptop size large
Length 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x Molex

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 112.1 GB / s 30.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz 950 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection