NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1493MHz vs 1127MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +81%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

1.911 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980M +41%

2946

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

2085

GeForce GTX 980M

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GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2017

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

1354 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1493 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

5

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

640

96

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.89 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.72 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

29.86 GFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.911 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.72 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP107

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.4

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