NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 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 - T-Rex (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) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 47% higher core clock speed: 1392 MHz vs 950 MHz
  • Around 52% higher boost clock speed: 1518 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 375 Watt
  • Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 7008 MHz vs 6000 MHz
Launch date 21 May 2018 vs 24 April 2013
Core clock speed 1392 MHz vs 950 MHz
Boost clock speed 1518 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 375 Watt
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz vs 6000 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

  • Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 658 vs 589
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5214 vs 5106
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 658 vs 589
PassMark - G3D Mark 5214 vs 5106

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
589
658
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5106
5214
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM
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 589 658
PassMark - G3D Mark 5106 5214
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 44.481
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1984.655
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 125.504
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 470.237

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Code name GP107 Malta
Launch date 21 May 2018 24 April 2013
Place in performance rating 335 334
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $999

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1518 MHz 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 1392 MHz 950 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 375 Watt
Transistor count 3,300 million 4,313 million
Floating-point performance 2x 4,096 gflops
Pipelines 2x 2048
Texture fill rate 2x 128.0 GTexel / s billion / sec

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 145 mm 307 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

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

Memory

Memory clock speed 7008 MHz 6000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount 2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 2x 288.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 2x 384 Bit
Memory type GDDR5