General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, 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.

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1792

768

CUDA cores

no data

768

Compute units

no data

Core clock speed

no data

1291 MHz

Boost Clock

970 MHz

1392 MHz

Transistor count

5,000 million

3,300 million

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

16 nm

Power consumption (TDP)

190 Watt

75 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

no data

97 °C

Texture fill rate

108.6

66.82

Floating-point performance

3,476 gflops

2,138 gflops

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon R9 380 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

no data

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

221 mm

145 mm

Form factor

full height / full length / dual slot

no data

Supplementary power connectors

2 x 6-pin

None

Bridgeless CrossFire

Memory

Parameters of memory installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

High bandwidth memory (HBM)

no data

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

970 MHz

7008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

182.4 GB/s

112 GB/s

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 380 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Eyefinity

Number of Eyefinity displays

no data

HDMI

DisplayPort support

G-SYNC support

Technologies

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

CrossFire

FRTC

FreeSync

HD3D

LiquidVR

PowerTune

TrueAudio

ZeroCore

VCE

DDMA audio

no data

VR Ready

no data

API support

APIs supported by Radeon R9 380 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DirectX® 12

12 (12_1)

Shader Model

6.3

6.4

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.131

Mantle

CUDA

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance comparison. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

R9 380 24.46

GTX 1050 Ti 24.96 +2%

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

R9 380 303773

GTX 1050 Ti 352876 +16.2%

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

R9 380 50723

GTX 1050 Ti 50939 +0.4%

3DMark Fire Strike Score

R9 380 7201 +5.6%

GTX 1050 Ti 6816

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

R9 380 8218 +9.8%

GTX 1050 Ti 7485

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

R9 380 12191 +29%

GTX 1050 Ti 9453

Passmark

R9 380 6215

GTX 1050 Ti 6344 +2.1%

Rendering quality tests

GFXBench render quality

4502 −0.9%

4541 +0.9%

GFXBench high precision render quality

4502 −0.9%

4541 +0.9%

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 380 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

404 Mh/s +23.9%

326 Mh/s −23.9%

Decred / DCR (Decred)

0.66 Gh/s −53%

1.01 Gh/s +53%

Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)

18 Mh/s +42.6%

12.62 Mh/s −42.6%

Monero / XMR (CryptoNight)

0.48 kh/s +60%

0.3 kh/s −60%

Zcash / ZEC (Equihash)

168.45 Sol/s +7.6%

156.48 Sol/s −7.6%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon R9 380 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 380

Cheaper ($361.00 USD vs $542.00 USD)

Wider memory bus (256 vs 128 bit)

More pipelines (1792 vs 768)

Higher memory bandwidth (182.4 vs 112 GB/s)

Mantle (an API developed by AMD for 3D graphics acceleration. Discontinued and later superceded by Vulkan)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

2% faster in synthetic tests

Much newer (25 October 2016 vs 26 June 2015)

Finer manufacturing process technology (16 vs 28 nm)

Less power hungry (75 vs 190 watts)

VR Ready

G-SYNC (removes screen tearing by telling the display when to renew the image. Only works with G-SYNC compatible displays)

CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture - an API for video card computing power usage in tasks different from 3D graphics processing. Can be used for physics simulation for instance)

PhysX (hardware acceleration of physical simulation engine named PhysX)

So, R9 380 or GTX 1050 Ti?

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