NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1455MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT +60%

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

5

SM Count

-

640

Shading Units

1536

40

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

185W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

352 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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