NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 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 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1518MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (84.10GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB +144%

2.332 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2018

Release Date

Dec 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

900 MHz

1518 MHz

Boost Clock

930 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

6

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

768

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

24

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 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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