NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 280

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280 3 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 R9 280

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

974 points

1280 points

31% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

21 FPS

30 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

19 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

27 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

11 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1151 MHz

39% slightly higher core clock speed

827 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1291 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

933 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

240 GB/s

114% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

233% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

41.31 Gigapixels/s

38% slightly higher pixel rate

29.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.97 Gigatexels/s

104.5 Gigatexels/s

68% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

3.34 TFLOPS

68% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1792

133% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

133% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

265th of 586

245th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 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

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs Radeon R9 280 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon R9 280 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 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 R9 280 at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R9 280 is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q.