In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Intel G1 1050MHz are significantly better than the Nvidia GeForce GT 445M v2.

The GT 445M has a 270 MHz higher core clock speed but 8 fewer Texture Mapping Units than the G1 1050MHz. The lower TMU count doesn't matter, though, as altogether the GT 445M manages to provide 4.1 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The GT 445M has a 270 MHz higher core clock speed and 13 more Render Output Units than the G1 1050MHz. This results in the GT 445M providing 8.2 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The G1 1050MHz was released over three years more recently than the GT 445M, and so the G1 1050MHz is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the GT 445M when running the latest games.

The GT 445M has 1024 MB video memory, but the G1 1050MHz does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.

The G1 1050MHz has 256 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GT 445M v2 has 144. However, the actual shader performance of the G1 1050MHz is 269 and the actual shader performance of the GT 445M is 164. The G1 1050MHz having 105 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the GT 445M performs better when taking into account other relevant data.

The G1 1050MHz transistor size technology is 30 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GT 445M. This means that the G1 1050MHz is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GT 445M.

The G1 1050MHz requires 28 Watts to run and the GeForce GT 445M v2 requires 35 Watts. The GT 445M requires 7 Watts more than the G1 1050MHz to run. The difference is not significant enough for the GT 445M to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the G1 1050MHz.