NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1455MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.1GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 +252%

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

-

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

640

Shading Units

320

40

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

R680

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

165W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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