NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2018
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Solar System
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1139 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1752 MHz
1375 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
112.1GB/s
88.00GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
5
-
Shading Units
640
768
TMUs
40
48
ROPs
16
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
256 KB
Compute Units
-
12

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
18.22 GPixel/s
17.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
45.56 GTexel/s
51.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
22.78 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
1458 GFLOPS
1.651 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
45.56 GFLOPS
103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GP107
Saturn
GPU Variant
N17P-G0-A1
Saturn XT
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3.3 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
132 mm²
160 mm²

Board Design

TDP
75W
100W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
-

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
-
Shader Model
6.4
6.3