GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile vs GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 3 Nov 2016
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 21 Sep 2015
GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti MobileGeForce GTX 980 Mobile
GPU NameGP107 ()vsGM204 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders768vs2048
Compute Units6vs16
Core clock1490 MHzvs1064 MHz
ROPs32vs64
TMUs48vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti MobileGeForce GTX 980 Mobile
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti MobileGeForce GTX 980 Mobile
TDP75 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date3 Nov 2016vs21 Sep 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    47.70 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    68.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    71.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    136.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    224.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    2288.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
    4358.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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