NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1518MHz vs 933MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +43%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

May 2018

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1392 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1518 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

384bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

6

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

768

Shading Units

1792

48

TMUs

112

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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