NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB AMD Radeon R9 Nano

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano 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 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1518MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano +251%

8.192 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

10

Radeon R9 Nano +180%

28

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

20

Radeon R9 Nano +200%

60

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

31

Radeon R9 Nano +141%

75

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

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Radeon R9 Nano

Graphics Card

May 2018

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

Pirate 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

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

96bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

6

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

768

Shading Units

4096

48

TMUs

256

24

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Fiji

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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