AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Which One is Better

Graphics Card

Release Date

Jan 2014

Oct 2016

Generation

Gem System

GeForce 10

Type

Mobile

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

850 MHz

1354 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1455 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

4GB

2GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256bit

128bit

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

112.1GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units

20

-

Shading Units

1280

640

TMUs

80

40

ROPs

32

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

1024 KB

SM Count

-

5

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

46.56 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

1.862 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.10 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

Neptune

GP107

GPU Variant

Neptune XT(216-0847000)

GP107-300-A1

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Pascal

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Process Size

28 nm

14 nm

Transistors

2.8 billion

3.3 billion

Die Size

212 mm²

132 mm²

Board Design

TDP

100W

75W

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a

Power Connectors

None

Suggested PSU

-

250 W

Graphics Features

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.3

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.4

CUDA

-

6.1

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy

-

1,734

3DMark Time Spy Extreme

-

509

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

-

8

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

-

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

-

31

GTA 5 1080p

-

149