NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1392MHz
Lower TDP (75W vs 580W)
AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
2.138 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 290X2
+163%
5.632 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2016
Release Date
Jun 2014
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1291 MHz
Base Clock
-
1392 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1752 MHz
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
112.1GB/s
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
6
SM Count
-
768
Shading Units
2816
48
TMUs
176
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
44.54 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
66.82 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
33.41 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.138 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
66.82 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
580W
250 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP107
GPU Name
Hawaii
GP107-400-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.3 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
132 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.3
