NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 560

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking432not rated
Place by popularity68not in top-100
Value for money1.68no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code namePolaris 21GP107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (6 years old)1 February 2019 (5 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$99 no data
Current price$381 (3.8x MSRP)$1197
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 cores1024768
Core clock speed1175 MHz1366 MHz
Boost clock speed1275 MHz1442 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate81.6069.22
Floating-point performance2,611 gflopsno data

Size and 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 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Length170 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB3 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed7000 MHz7008 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.0 GB/s84.1 GB/s

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.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+no data

API support

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDAno data6.1

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 18 April 2017 1 February 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 3 GB

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