NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

48% significantly better overall score

779 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

19 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

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce GTX 1050 and the Radeon R7 260X? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

38% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1500 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

1100 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

Identical

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

7% slightly higher memory bandwidth

104 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

53% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

164% significantly higher pixel rate

17.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

61.6 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

1.97 TFLOPS

5% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

896

40% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586

284th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R7 260X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1050 beats the Radeon R7 260X in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1050 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 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 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 R7 260X at 115 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 over the Radeon R7 260X.