GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce 840M

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
GeForce 840M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 12 Mar 2014
GeForce 840M

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 840M

42 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1050 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce 840M
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-400-A1)vsGM108 (N15S-GT)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs0 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvsunknown
Shaders768vs384
Compute Units6vs3
Core clock1290 MHzvs1029 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs48vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce 840M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce 840M
TDP75 wattsvs33 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs12 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    41.30 GP/s
  • GeForce 840M
    8.23 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    61.90 GT/s
  • GeForce 840M
    16.46 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce 840M
    16.02 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    1981.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 840M
    790.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better