NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon R7 M260

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 M260 4 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

399% significantly better overall score

232 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

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

5 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

222% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5767 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

214% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5710 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

250% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5130 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

223% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5311 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

940 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

980 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

250% significantly higher memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

493% significantly higher pixel rate

7.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

147% significantly higher texture rate

23.52 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

410th 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

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.3

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R7 M260 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 M260 in our tests.

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

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon R7 M260 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1050 is faster than the Radeon R7 M260.