NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM 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 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1518MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM +9%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

VS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2018

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1392 MHz

Base Clock

-

1518 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

6

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

768

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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