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

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GP107 GM204
GPU variant N17P-G0-A1 GM204-400-A1
Architecture Pascal Maxwell 2.0
Foundry Samsung TSMC
Manufacturing process 14 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 3,300 million 5,200 million
Die size 132 mm² 398 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 3rd, 2018
Generation GeForce 10 Mobile
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 15 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 900M
Successor GeForce 20 Mobile

Clocks

Base clock 1000 MHz 1127 MHz
Boost clock 1139 MHz 1216 MHz
Memory clock 1752 MHz 7 Gbps effective 1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 112.1 GB/s 224.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 640 2048
TMUs 40 128
ROPs 16 64
SM count 5
Cache L1 48 KB (per SM) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 1024 KB 2 MB
SMM count 16

Performance

Pixel rate 18.22 GPixel/s 77.82 GPixel/s
Texture rate 45.56 GTexel/s 155.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 22.78 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance 1,458 GFLOPS 4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 45.56 GFLOPS (1:32) 155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

TDP 75 W 165 W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Slot width Dual-slot
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 40 mm 1.6 inches
Suggested PSU 450 W
Board number PG401

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
CUDA 6.1 5.2
Shader model 6.4 6.4

Other Features

Graphics Card

Release date Sep 19th, 2014
Generation GeForce 900
Production End-of-life
Launch price 549 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 146 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 700
Successor GeForce 10

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