NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon 740M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon 740M, 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

1159 points
1233 points
6% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS
28 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
19 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
24 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points
75% significantly higher Blender score
97.23 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
16802 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points
25942 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

253rd of 586
248th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon 740M specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon 740M graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 in our tests.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon 740M is better than the GeForce GTX 1050.

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