NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon R5 230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1455MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.1GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 +831%

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

-

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

5

SM Count

-

640

Shading Units

160

40

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

19W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Caicos

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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