NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon R9 350

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 350 2 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

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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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10504 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9946 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8856 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

46% significantly higher core clock speed

925 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

Identical

2 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

60 W

25% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

262nd of 604

393rd of 604

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

4.3

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 350 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 350 in our tests.

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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, 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 R9 350 has a slightly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 is better than the Radeon R9 350.