NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1 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

1159 points
119% significantly better overall score
528 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points
275% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4950 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points
262% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4950 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz
61% significantly higher boost clock speed
900 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB
100% significantly more memory
1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586
321st of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon HD 6000 Series

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 HD 6870 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1050 beats the Radeon HD 6870 in gaming performance.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1050 has significantly more memory with 2 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 over the Radeon HD 6870.

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