AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

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

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

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

Lower TDP (75W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +44%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270X

1769

GeForce GTX 1050 +1%

1789

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce GTX 1050

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1354 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

5

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.56 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.10 GFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.862 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

58.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GP107

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

GP107-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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