NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon R7 430

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 430, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R7 430

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 134.04

$ 35.95 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

468% significantly better overall score

204 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

175% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6738 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

6940 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

172% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6591 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

246% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4960 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

85% significantly higher core clock speed

730 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

86% significantly higher boost clock speed

780 MHz

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

289% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

50 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

646% significantly higher pixel rate

6.24 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

210% significantly higher texture rate

18.72 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

66% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586

427th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R7 430 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 430 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly 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. 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.

In addition, the Radeon R7 430 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 is better than the Radeon R7 430.