Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Oct 2016 | Jan 2013 |
| Generation | GeForce 10 | Sea Islands |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1354 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1455 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1752 MHz | 1375 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 3GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 128bit | 384bit |
| Bandwidth | 112.1GB/s | 264.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 5 | |
| Shading Units | 640 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 40 | 128 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 48 KB (per SM) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | 768 KB |
| Compute Units | 32 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 46.56 GPixel/s | 29.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 58.20 GTexel/s | 118.4 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 29.10 GFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 1.862 TFLOPS | 3.789 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 58.20 GFLOPS | 947.2 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GP107 | Tahiti |
| GPU Variant | GP107-300-A1 | Tahiti XT(215-0821060) |
| Architecture | Pascal | GCN 1.0 |
| Foundry | Samsung | TSMC |
| Process Size | 14 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 3.3 billion | 4.313 billion |
| Die Size | 132 mm² | 352 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 75W | 250W |
| Suggested PSU | 250 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | None | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 (11_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 6.1 | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 5.1 |