NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

nvidia

Brand

2GB GDDR5

Memory

640

Cores

112.1 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 1050

N/A Oct 2016 View Details

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nvidia

Brand

4GB GDDR5

Memory

2048

Cores

224.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 980

N/A Sep 2014 View Details

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

2GB GDDR5 75W N/A Oct 2016

GeForce GTX 1050

$109 • Oct 2016

GeForce GTX 980

$549 • Sep 2014

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

4GB GDDR5 165W N/A Sep 2014

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Memory Size	2 GB	4 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
TDP	75 W	165 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1455 MHz	1216 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	112.1 GB/s	224.4 GB/s
Process Size	14nm	28nm
Architecture	Pascal	Maxwell 2.0
Shading Units	640	2048
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	40	128
ROPs	32	64
Memory Bus	128-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1752 MHz	1753 MHz
Pixel Rate	46.56 GPixel/s	77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	112.1 GTexel/s	224.4 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	1.862 GFLOPS	4.981 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	1.00 MB	2.00 MB
Die Size	132 mm²	398 mm²
Transistors	3300 Million	5200 Million
Required PSU	250 W	450 W
Power Connectors	None	2x 6-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12.1
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	Samsung	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

1831

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

3574 (+95%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

20580

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

33492 (+63%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

30 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

5025

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

11113 (+121%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Game Benchmarks Comparison (9 benchmarks)

PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2019

7 2018 • Sports • Konami Digital Entertainment

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+98%)

AVG 129 FPS

MIN 115 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+108%)

AVG 81 FPS

MIN 71 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+105%)

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

Winner

Loser

Darksiders III

8.7 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Gunfire Games

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 (+114%)

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 36 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 (+108%)

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 17 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 980 (+100%)

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 15 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 11 FPS

MIN 7 FPS

Winner

Loser

Call of Cthulhu

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Cyanide Studio

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+100%)

AVG 118 FPS

MIN 80 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+105%)

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 40 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 980 (+105%)

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 16 FPS

Winner

Loser

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Wins!

Based on 9 benchmarks across 3 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1050

+104.1%

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 980