Tegra X1 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking133not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation14.27no data
Power efficiency9.95no data
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGM200GM20B
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2 June 2015 (9 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$649 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores2816256
Core clock speed1000 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1075 MHzno data
Number of transistors8,000 million2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate189.416.00
Floating-point processing power6.06 TFLOPS0.512 TFLOPS
ROPs9616
TMUs17616

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).

Bus supportPCI Express 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length267 mmno data
Height4.376" (11.1 cm)no data
Width2-slotIGP
Recommended system power (PSU)600 Wattno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount6 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed7.0 GB/sSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth336.5 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsDual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2No outputs
Multi monitor support4 displaysno data
HDMI+-
HDCP+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
G-SYNC support+-
Audio input for HDMIInternalno data

Supported technologies

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

GameStream+-
GeForce ShadowPlay+-
GPU Boost2.0no data
GameWorks+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.1.126-
CUDA+-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

GTX 980 Ti 52856
+3308%
Tegra X1 1551

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 20 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 15 Watt

Tegra X1 has a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 1566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 980 Ti and Tegra X1. We've got no test results to judge.


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