NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 390X 8 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

1683% significantly better overall score

65 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

25 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

23 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

30 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

4254 points

104% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

1050 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

512 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

384 GB/s

242% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

266% significantly lower TDP

275 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

67.2 Gigapixels/s

44% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

184.8 Gigatexels/s

217% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

5.91 TFLOPS

217% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

2816

339% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

339% significantly 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

253rd of 586

537th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2015 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

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 390X benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 390X in our tests.

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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon R9 390X has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 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 390X at 275 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1050 is faster than the Radeon R9 390X.