GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 980M

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 980M, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1038 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 96 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 980M		9476 points
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		7734 points
	Difference: 1742 (23%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980M		155 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		138 Sol/s
	Difference: 17 (12%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 980M		100 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 980M should be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		128000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 13312 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980M is a lot (approximately 61%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		99648 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 37728 (61%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980M is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980M		66432 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25152 (61%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.