AMD Radeon RX Vega 9 vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile

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Combined performance score

Nvidia GTX 1050 3GB Mobile
12.75
+127%

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile outperforms Radeon RX Vega 9 by 127% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking360563
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for moneyno data5.10
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code nameno dataVega Raven Ridge
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release dateApril 2018 (5 years old)26 October 2017 (6 years old)
Current priceno data$302
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores768576
Core clock speed1366 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1442 MHz1300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount3 MBno data
Memory bus width96 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1752 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth84 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

G-SYNC support+no data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Multi-Projection+no data
Multi Monitor+no data

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12_1
Vulkan+no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Nvidia GTX 1050 3GB Mobile 12.75
+127%
RX Vega 9 5.62

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile outperforms Radeon RX Vega 9 by 127% in our combined benchmark results.


3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Nvidia GTX 1050 3GB Mobile 6401
+130%
RX Vega 9 2789

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile outperforms Radeon RX Vega 9 by 130% in 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD40−45
+111%
19
−111%

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 12.75 5.62

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon RX Vega 9 in performance tests.


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