NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and AMD Radeon HD 7950 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 21% higher boost clock speed: 1518 MHz vs 1250 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 4x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • 5.6x more memory clock speed: 7008 MHz vs 1250 MHz
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 8368 vs 7988
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 8368 vs 7988
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 21 May 2018 vs 31 January 2012
Boost clock speed 1518 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8368 vs 7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8368 vs 7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 vs 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 vs 3699

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950

Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 vs 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 vs 3356

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7950

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8368
7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8368
7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
3699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3359
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB AMD Radeon HD 7950
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8368 7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8368 7988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 3359
PassMark - G2D Mark 603
PassMark - G3D Mark 5149
Geekbench - OpenCL 82144
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 63.74
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1177.395
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 69.23
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 343.81
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1914

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB AMD Radeon HD 7950

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Code name GP107 Tahiti
Launch date 21 May 2018 31 January 2012
Place in performance rating 326 527
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $449

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1518 MHz 1250 MHz
Core clock speed 1392 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 300 Watt
Transistor count 3,300 million 4,313 million
Compute units 28
Floating-point performance 2,867 gflops
Pipelines 1792
Stream Processors 1792
Texture fill rate 89.6 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 145 mm 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Bus support PCIe 3.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 11
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Memory clock speed 7008 MHz 1250 MHz
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 240 GB/s
Memory bus width 384 Bit
Memory type GDDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
PowerTune
ZeroCore