NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon R9 270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1455MHz vs 925MHz)
Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)
AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1050
1.862 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 270
+27%
2.368 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1050
+8%
1734
Radeon R9 270
1603
Graphics Card
Oct 2016
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1354 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
1455 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1752 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.1GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
5
SM Count
-
640
Shading Units
1280
40
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
46.56 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
58.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
29.10 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1.862 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
58.20 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 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
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP107
GPU Name
Curacao
GP107-300-A1
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO
(215-0848000)
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
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
