GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB Max-Q vs GTX 580M SLI

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking437not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.16no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameN12E-GTX2GP107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 January 2011 (13 years ago)1 February 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores768768
Core clock speed620 MHz1366 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1442 MHz
Number of transistorsno data3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data69.22
Floating-point processing powerno data2.215 TFLOPS
ROPsno data24
TMUsno data48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data3 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1752 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data84.1 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2011 1 February 2019
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 75 Watt

GTX 1050 3 GB Max-Q has an age advantage of 8 years, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

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