NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition 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: 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 74% higher core clock speed: 1392 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 200 Watt
  • Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 7008 MHz vs 5000 MHz
Launch date 21 May 2018 vs 7 March 2013
Core clock speed 1392 MHz vs 800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 200 Watt
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

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

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8368
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8368
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356
PassMark - G2D Mark 603
PassMark - G3D Mark 5149
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 67.802
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1230.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 81.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 370.179

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Code name GP107 Tahiti
Launch date 21 May 2018 7 March 2013
Place in performance rating 326 612
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $449

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1518 MHz
Core clock speed 1392 MHz 800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 200 Watt
Transistor count 3,300 million 4,313 million
Floating-point performance 2,867 gflops
Pipelines 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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 145 mm 279 mm
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Memory clock speed 7008 MHz 5000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 240.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit
Memory type GDDR5