GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile vs GeForce GTX 980M

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 3 Nov 2016
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
GeForce GTX 980M
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 7 Oct 2014
GeForce GTX 980M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 980M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 980M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti MobileGeForce GTX 980M
GPU NameGP107 ()vsGM204 (N16E-GX-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders768vs1536
Compute Units6vs12
Core clock1490 MHzvs1038 MHz
ROPs32vs64
TMUs48vs96

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti MobileGeForce GTX 980M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti MobileGeForce GTX 980M
TDP75 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date3 Nov 2016vs7 Oct 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    47.70 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 980M
    66.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    71.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 980M
    99.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 980M
    160.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    2288.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 980M
    3189.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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