NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 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 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1493MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

1.911 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +4%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2017

Release Date

Nov 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

975 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

640

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

59.72 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

29.86 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.911 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

59.72 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

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

Board Design

75W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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