ATI Radeon X1050 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Place in the ranking	510	1437
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.70	no data
Power efficiency	2.69	0.37
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code name	GF110	RV370
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	29 November 2011 (13 years ago)	7 December 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$289	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores	448	no data
Core clock speed	732 MHz	400 MHz
Number of transistors	3,000 million	107 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	210 Watt	24 Watt
Texture fill rate	40.99	1.600
Floating-point processing power	1.312 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	40	4
TMUs	56	4

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	None

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 type	GDDR5	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	128 MB
Memory bus width	320 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	950 MHz	333 MHz
Memory bandwidth	152.0 GB/s	5.328 GB/s

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 Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	9.0
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	2.0	-

Gaming performance

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

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	8.23	0.13
Recency	29 November 2011	7 December 2006
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	128 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	210 Watt	24 Watt

GTX 560 Ti 448 has a 6230.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, a 900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 175% more advanced lithography process.

ATI X1050, on the other hand, has 775% lower power consumption.

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon X1050 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.