NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon HD 7990

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7990 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon HD 7990

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 504.97 significantly less expensive

$ 674.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

1743 points

50% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

41 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

25 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

35 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

950 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

45% significantly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

3 GiB

49% significantly more memory

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

400% significantly lower TDP

375 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

45% significantly higher pixel rate

32 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

128 Gigatexels/s

119% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

4.10 TFLOPS

119% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

2048

220% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

220% 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

254th of 586

223rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 7990 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon HD 7990 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 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 also has a significantly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon HD 7990 has significantly more memory with 3 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon HD 7990 at 375 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 HD 7990 is better than the GeForce GTX 1050.