NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

974 points

3839 points

294% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

21 FPS

76 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

58 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

52 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

11 FPS

47 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

226.56 points

536.77 points

136% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18936 points

36268 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20678 points

40025 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18970 points

54616 points

187% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19975 points

43854 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18555 points

47793 points

157% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1151 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

1076 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1291 MHz

19% slightly higher boost clock speed

1076 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

336.6 GB/s

200% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

233% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

41.31 Gigapixels/s

103.3 Gigapixels/s

150% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.97 Gigatexels/s

189.4 Gigatexels/s

205% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

6.06 TFLOPS

205% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

2816

266% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

266% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

267th of 586

127th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 980 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q.