NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1455MHz vs 1216MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 165W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +167%

4.981 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1050

1760

GeForce GTX 980 +146%

4330

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050

8

GeForce GTX 980 +125%

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050

18

GeForce GTX 980 +94%

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050

31

GeForce GTX 980 +100%

62

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050

38

GeForce GTX 980 +63%

62

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 +49%

149

GeForce GTX 980

100

GeForce GTX 1050

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GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GM204

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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