NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 11 months late

Boost Clock1455MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +160%

4.849 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1050

1789

Radeon R9 290 +105%

3684

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Nov 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

-

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

5

SM Count

-

640

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

275W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Hawaii

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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