NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1455MHz vs 1050MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +44%

2.688 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1050 +1%

1789

Radeon R9 270X

1769

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

5

SM Count

-

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

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

33.60 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

180W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Curacao

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

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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