NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1518MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +141%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

May 2018

Release Date

Jun 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

-

1518 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

512bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

6

SM Count

-

768

Shading Units

2816

48

TMUs

176

24

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

580W

250 W

Suggested PSU

950 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

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Hawaii

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

438 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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