NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1139MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

1.458 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +58%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1139 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

45.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

22.78 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1458 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

45.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Neptune

N17P-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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