NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop) vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop) 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 61% higher core clock speed: 1290 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 33% higher maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 3 GB
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 7008 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Launch date	25 October 2016 vs 7 March 2013
Core clock speed	1290 MHz vs 800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 200 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 3 GB
Memory clock speed	7008 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Around 54% higher texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 58.2 GTexel / s
2.8x more pipelines: 1792 vs 640
Around 54% better floating-point performance: 2,867 gflops vs 1,862 gflops
Around 1% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 67.802 vs 67.209
Around 54% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1230.769 vs 799.414
2.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 81.68 vs 30.523
Around 65% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 370.179 vs 223.683

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s vs 58.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 640
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops vs 1,862 gflops
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	67.802 vs 67.209
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1230.769 vs 799.414
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	81.68 vs 30.523
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	370.179 vs 223.683

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

67.209

67.802

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

799.414

1230.769

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

30.523

81.68

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

223.683

370.179

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop)	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	5029
PassMark - G2D Mark	458
Geekbench - OpenCL	17470
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	67.209	67.802
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	799.414	1230.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	30.523	81.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	223.683	370.179
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	7043
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	7043
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	121

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop)	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 1.0
Code name	GP107	Tahiti
Launch date	25 October 2016	7 March 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$109	$449
Place in performance rating	598	600
Price now	$124.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	56.95
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1392 MHz
Core clock speed	1290 MHz	800 MHz
CUDA cores	640
Floating-point performance	1,862 gflops	2,867 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	97 °C
Pipelines	640	1792
Texture fill rate	58.2 GTexel / s	89.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	200 Watt
Transistor count	3,300 million	4,313 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Height	4.38" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	5.7" (14.5 cm)	279 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 6-pin
Width	2-slot
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB / s	240.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	7008 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GameStream
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
VR Ready