NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon R7 450

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 450 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R7 450

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 149.99

$ 20.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

290% significantly better overall score

297 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10702 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9779 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10058 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8478 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

1050 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

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

65 W

15% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

214% significantly higher pixel rate

14.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

96% significantly higher texture rate

29.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

25% slightly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% 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

379th 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

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.3

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R7 450 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1050 beats the Radeon R7 450 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.

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 Radeon R7 450 has a slightly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 at 75 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 over the Radeon R7 450.