NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1518MHz vs 1471MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +351%

10.54 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

10

Radeon RX Vega 56 +200%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

20

Radeon RX Vega 56 +185%

57

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

31

Radeon RX Vega 56 +180%

87

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

16

Radeon RX Vega 56 +225%

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

30

Radeon RX Vega 56 +210%

93

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

38

Radeon RX Vega 56 +228%

125

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

29

Radeon RX Vega 56 +58%

46

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

65

Radeon RX Vega 56 +40%

91

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

92

Radeon RX Vega 56 +19%

110

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

May 2018

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1392 MHz

Base Clock

1156 MHz

1518 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

96bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

6

SM Count

-

768

Shading Units

3584

48

TMUs

224

24

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

210W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Vega 10

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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