NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R7 M265

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 M265 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1057 points

500% significantly better overall score

176 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

24 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17020 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6785 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16857 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

6701 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6539 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

207% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5824 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

725 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

825 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

250% significantly higher memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

132% significantly higher pixel rate

7.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

93% significantly higher texture rate

23.52 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

66% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 586

446th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.3

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs Radeon R7 M265 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q beats the Radeon R7 M265 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q over the Radeon R7 M265.