NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1600MHz vs 1455MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +604%

13.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1050

1760

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +302%

7078

GeForce GTX 1050

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

640

Shading Units

4096

40

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Vega 10

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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