Radeon 780M vs GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated298
Place by popularitynot in top-10048
Power efficiencyno data85.04
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGP107Hawx Point
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 February 2019 (5 years ago)6 December 2023 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores768768
Core clock speed1366 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed1442 MHz2700 MHz
Number of transistors3,300 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate69.22129.6
Floating-point processing power2.215 TFLOPS8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs2432
TMUs4848
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount3 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width96 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1752 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth84.1 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

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.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 February 2019 6 December 2023
Chip lithography 14 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 780M has an age advantage of 4 years, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB and Radeon 780M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB
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AMD Radeon 780M
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