NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1455MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2 +119%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

5

SM Count

-

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

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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