NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q

AMD Radeon R7 260X

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

974 points

25% slightly better overall score

779 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

21 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

19 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

16 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

11 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1151 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

1100 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1291 MHz

29% slightly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 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

7% slightly higher memory bandwidth

104 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

53% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

41.31 Gigapixels/s

134% significantly higher pixel rate

17.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.97 Gigatexels/s

0.60% slightly higher texture rate

61.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

0.61% slightly better floating point performance

1.97 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

896

16% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

16% slightly 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

264th of 586

283rd 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

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs Radeon R7 260X benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon R7 260X graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon R7 260X at 115 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R7 260X over the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q.