AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

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AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1392MHz vs 1266MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +172%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

2.138 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480 +78%

4163

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

2336

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 480 +54%

17

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

11

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 480 +75%

35

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 480 +78%

50

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

28

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti +66%

176

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Oct 2016

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1291 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1392 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

768

144

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

44.54 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

66.82 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

33.41 GFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.138 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

66.82 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GP107

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GP107-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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