NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon 540

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Boost Clock1455MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.1GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 +105%

1.862 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

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AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

-

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

32bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Lexa

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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