GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated387
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data12.03
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameVega 10GP107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date7 August 2017 (7 years ago)21 May 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 no data

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 cores4096768
Core clock speed1408 MHz1392 MHz
Boost clock speed1668 MHz1518 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)345 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate427.072.86
Floating-point processing power13.66 TFLOPS2.332 TFLOPS
ROPs6424
TMUs25648

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 3.0 x16
Length282 mm145 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

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 typeHBM2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB3 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed945 MHz1752 MHz
Memory bandwidth483.8 GB/s84.1 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.1.1251.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 August 2017 21 May 2018
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 3 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 345 Watt 75 Watt

RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GTX 1050 3 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 months, and 360% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling and GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
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