NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 Clock has increased by 45% (1518MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +15%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

VS

Radeon R9 270X

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

1000 MHz

1518 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

6

SM Count

-

768

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

24

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

180W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Curacao

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

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

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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