NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

AMD Radeon HD 8790M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1139MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.1GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q +110%

1.458 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 8790M

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1139 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

5

SM Count

-

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

45.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

22.78 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1458 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

45.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Mars

N17P-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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