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

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

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

974 points

1687 points

73% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

21 FPS

40 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

25 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

35 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

11 FPS

14 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1151 MHz

35% slightly higher core clock speed

850 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

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

288 GB/s

156% 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

29% slightly higher pixel rate

32 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.97 Gigatexels/s

128 Gigatexels/s

106% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

4.10 TFLOPS

106% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

2048

166% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

166% 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

226th 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 280X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 280X GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 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 Ti Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

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. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280X at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R9 280X is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q.