NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1442MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB

2.215 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X +4%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1366 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1442 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

256bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

6

SM Count

-

768

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

24

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

34.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

69.22 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

34.61 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.215 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

69.22 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Neptune

N17P-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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