AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

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AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

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

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock1392MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +163%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

2.138 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290X +67%

3925

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

2337

Radeon R9 290X

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GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

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

-

Base Clock

1291 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1392 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2816

Shading Units

768

176

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

44.54 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

66.82 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

33.41 GFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.138 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

66.82 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

GP107-400-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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