NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1456 points

3839 points

163% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

76 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

58 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

52 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

47 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2341 points

5794 points

147% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

215.07 points

536.77 points

149% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

20616 points

36268 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834 points

19520 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192 points

40025 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21230 points

54616 points

157% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834 points

19520 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points

43854 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20196 points

47793 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

1076 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz

29% 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

44.54 Gigapixels/s

103.3 Gigapixels/s

131% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s

189.4 Gigatexels/s

183% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.14 TFLOPS

6.06 TFLOPS

183% 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

237th of 586

127th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

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

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

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. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.