AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1518MHz vs 1000MHz)
Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X
+75%
4.096 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
2.332 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
May 2018
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
1392 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1518 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1752 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
96bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
84.10GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
2048
Shading Units
768
128
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
36.43 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
72.86 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
36.43 GFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.332 TFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
72.86 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
75W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GP107
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
GP107-301-K1-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
3.3 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
132 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
