AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1518MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +141%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1392 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1518 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

96bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

84.10GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2816

Shading Units

768

176

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.43 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

36.43 GFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.332 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

72.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

75W

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GP107

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GP107-301-K1-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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