AMD Radeon Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, API support, Memory, Technologies, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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).

AMD Radeon Vega 7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 7

Around 43% higher boost clock speed: 1900 MHz vs 1328 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm

Boost clock speed	1900 MHz vs 1328 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 14 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

Around 43% higher pipelines: 640 vs 448
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 65% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2076 vs 1262

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	640 vs 448
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2076 vs 1262

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 7
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1262

2076

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1262	2076
PassMark - G3D Mark		4020
PassMark - G2D Mark		285
Geekbench - OpenCL		12601
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 Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Pascal
Code name	Renoir	GP107
Launch date	Q1'2020	3 January 2018
Place in performance rating	1044	656
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz	1328 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	448	640
Core clock speed		999 MHz
Floating-point performance		1,700 gflops
Texture fill rate		53.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Transistor count		3,300 million
Video outputs and ports
Number of simultaneous displays	3
Display Connectors		No outputs
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	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
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None