AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

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AMD Radeon R9 285X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Boost Clock1455MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +120%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

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GeForce GTX 1050

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

1354 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

5

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.56 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.10 GFLOPS

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.862 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

58.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GP107

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

GP107-300-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

75W

550 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 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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