T500 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking342not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.21no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGP107TU117
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date3 January 2017 (7 years ago)2 December 2020 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores768896
Core clock speed1493 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speed1620 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistors3,300 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt18 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature97 °Cno data
Texture fill rate77.7679.80
Floating-point processing power2.488 TFLOPS2.554 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs4856

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed7 GB/s1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth112 GB/s80 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Ansel+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA+7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2017 2 December 2020
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 18 Watt

T500 Max-Q has an age advantage of 3 years, a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 316.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile and T500 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile is a notebook graphics card while T500 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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