NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop) vs AMD Radeon HD 8530M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop) and AMD Radeon HD 8530M 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 98% higher core clock speed: 1290 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • Around 99% higher boost clock speed: 1392 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • 3.5x more texture fill rate: 58.2 GTexel / s vs 16.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384
  • 3.5x better floating-point performance: 1,862 gflops vs 537.6 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • 3.9x more memory clock speed: 7008 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 10.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5049 vs 490
  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 464 vs 438
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3685 vs 2455
  • 93.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3685 vs 39.6
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 25 October 2016 vs 10 January 2014
Core clock speed 1290 MHz vs 650 MHz
Boost clock speed 1392 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate 58.2 GTexel / s vs 16.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 640 vs 384
Floating-point performance 1,862 gflops vs 537.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5049 vs 490
PassMark - G2D Mark 464 vs 438
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3685 vs 2455
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3685 vs 39.6

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8530M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5049
490
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
464
438
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3685
2455
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3685
39.6
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop) AMD Radeon HD 8530M
PassMark - G3D Mark 5049 490
PassMark - G2D Mark 464 438
Geekbench - OpenCL 16804
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 67.209
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 799.414
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 30.523
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 223.683
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7043
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3685 2455
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7043
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3685 39.6
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1755

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop) AMD Radeon HD 8530M

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Code name GP107 Mars
Launch date 25 October 2016 10 January 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $109
Place in performance rating 579 582
Price now $124.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 56.95

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1392 MHz 700 MHz
Core clock speed 1290 MHz 650 MHz
CUDA cores 640
Floating-point performance 1,862 gflops 537.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 97 °C
Pipelines 640 384
Texture fill rate 58.2 GTexel / s 16.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt
Transistor count 3,300 million 1,040 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI No outputs
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 x8
Length 5.7" (14.5 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None
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 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 112 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GameStream
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
VR Ready