AMD Radeon 780M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 780M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon 780M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 780M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 50% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 999 MHz
2.2x more boost clock speed: 2900 MHz vs 1328 MHz
2620.5x more texture fill rate: 139.2 GTexel/s vs 53.12 GTexel / s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 768 vs 640
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 14 nm
5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 75 Watt
2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 27793 vs 12601
3.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 879 vs 285
Around 74% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6998 vs 4020

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2023 vs 3 January 2018
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 999 MHz
Boost clock speed	2900 MHz vs 1328 MHz
Texture fill rate	139.2 GTexel/s vs 53.12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	768 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	27793 vs 12601
PassMark - G2D Mark	879 vs 285
PassMark - G3D Mark	6998 vs 4020

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

4.3x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2076 vs 480

Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2076 vs 480

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 780M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

27793

12601

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

879

285

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6998

4020

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

480

2076

Name	AMD Radeon 780M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q
Geekbench - OpenCL	27793	12601
PassMark - G2D Mark	879	285
PassMark - G3D Mark	6998	4020
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	480	2076
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6614
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1341
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6614
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1341

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 780M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Pascal
Code name	Phoenix	GP107
Launch date	4 Jan 2023	3 January 2018
Place in performance rating	240	656
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2900 MHz	1328 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	999 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	768	640
Pixel fill rate	92.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	139.2 GTexel/s	53.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	75 Watt
Floating-point performance		1,700 gflops
Transistor count		3,300 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	112.1 GB / s
Memory bus width	System Shared	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	7008 MHz
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR5
Shared memory		0