GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 850M

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
GeForce GTX 850M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 12 Mar 2014
GeForce GTX 850M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 850M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 850M
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-400-A1)vsGM107 (N15P-GT-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders768vs640
Compute Units6vs5
Core clock1290 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs48vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 850M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 850M
TDP75 wattsvs45 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs12 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    41.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 850M
    14.43 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    61.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 850M
    36.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 850M
    32.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    1981.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 850M
    1154.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better