AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm

Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 14 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

Around 21% higher boost clock speed: 1328 MHz vs 1100 MHz
5x more pipelines: 640 vs 128
Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 287 vs 244
8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4041 vs 506
4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 12690 vs 3208

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1328 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Pipelines	640 vs 128
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	287 vs 244
PassMark - G3D Mark	4041 vs 506
Geekbench - OpenCL	12690 vs 3208

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

244

287

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

506

4041

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

3208

12690

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q
PassMark - G2D Mark	244	287
PassMark - G3D Mark	506	4041
Geekbench - OpenCL	3208	12690
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
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2076

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Pascal
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GP107
Launch date	7 Jan 2018	3 January 2018
Place in performance rating	949	700
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	1328 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	128	640
Transistor count	4500 million	3,300 million
Core clock speed		999 MHz
Floating-point performance		1,700 gflops
Texture fill rate		53.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		112.1 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		7008 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0