NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1518MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB +18%

2.332 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

May 2018

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic 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

1625 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

6

SM Count

-

768

Shading Units

896

48

TMUs

56

24

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

115W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Bonaire

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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