NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1518MHz vs 1076MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +159%

6.06 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

10

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +140%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

20

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +125%

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

31

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +141%

75

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

29

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +148%

72

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

65

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +13%

74

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

92

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +30%

120

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

May 2018

Release Date

Jun 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1392 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1518 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

6

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

2816

48

TMUs

176

24

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GM200

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

8 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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