GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB vs Radeon R9 M290X
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB Advantages
Released 5 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1442MHz vs 900MHz)
Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)
Radeon R9 M290X Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB
2215
Radeon R9 M290X
+4%
2304
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 10 Mobile
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1366 MHz
Base Clock
850 MHz
1442 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1752 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
96bit
Memory Bus
256bit
84.10GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
6
SM Count
-
768
Shading Units
1280
48
TMUs
80
24
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
34.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
69.22 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
34.61 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.215 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
69.22 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP107
GPU Name
Neptune
N17P-G0-A1
GPU Variant
Neptune XT
(216-0847000)
(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
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
