AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 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 RX Vega 8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm

Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 1 February 2017
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 16 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)

Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 1493 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Around 25% higher pipelines: 640 vs 512
Around 46% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2084 vs 1429

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1493 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Pipelines	640 vs 512
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2084 vs 1429

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1429

2084

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429	2084
PassMark - G3D Mark		4463
PassMark - G2D Mark		292
Geekbench - OpenCL		17466
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		67.209
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		799.414
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		30.523
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		223.683
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		7239
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		7239
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Pascal
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GP106B
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	1 February 2017
Place in performance rating	949	595
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	1493 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	16 nm
Pipelines	512	640
Core clock speed		1354 MHz
Floating-point performance		1,911 gflops
Texture fill rate		59.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Transistor count		4,400 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
G-SYNC support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		large
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
Technologies
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection