NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 270

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 817.01 significantly less expensive

$ 987.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

43% significantly better overall score

807 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

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

28% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1610 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

22331 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

22701 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

50% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

57% significantly higher boost clock speed

925 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

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

5504% significantly higher memory bandwidth

2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

100% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

57% significantly higher pixel rate

29.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

74 Gigatexels/s

27% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

2.37 TFLOPS

27% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

1280

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% 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

280th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 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

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 270 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 270 in gaming.

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. 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. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon R9 270 at 150 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 R9 270.