NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1471MHz vs 1455MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +466%

10.54 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1050

1769

Radeon RX Vega 56 +288%

6873

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050

8

Radeon RX Vega 56 +275%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050

18

Radeon RX Vega 56 +216%

57

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050

31

Radeon RX Vega 56 +180%

87

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050

14

Radeon RX Vega 56 +271%

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050

29

Radeon RX Vega 56 +220%

93

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050

36

Radeon RX Vega 56 +247%

125

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050

38

Radeon RX Vega 56 +139%

91

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 +35%

149

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

GeForce GTX 1050

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Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

1156 MHz

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

-

Compute Units

56

640

Shading Units

3584

40

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Vega 10

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

210W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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