NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 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 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1493MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

1.911 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X +20%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Jan 2017

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

1354 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1493 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

5

SM Count

-

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

59.72 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

29.86 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.911 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

59.72 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

-

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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