NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M 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 8 months late

Boost Clock1139MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.1GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

1.458 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +13%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1139 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

5

SM Count

-

640

Shading Units

768

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

45.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

22.78 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1458 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

45.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Saturn

N17P-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

160 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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