NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) vs AMD Radeon R7 M270DX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) and AMD Radeon R7 M270DX 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 (Notebook)

AMD Radeon R7 M270DX

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 50% higher core clock speed: 1354 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 59% higher boost clock speed: 1493 MHz vs 940 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
4.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4462 vs 962
Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 292 vs 233

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2017 vs 11 June 2014
Core clock speed	1354 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed	1493 MHz vs 940 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4462 vs 962
PassMark - G2D Mark	292 vs 233

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 M270DX

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4462

962

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

292

233

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)	AMD Radeon R7 M270DX
PassMark - G3D Mark	4462	962
PassMark - G2D Mark	292	233
Geekbench - OpenCL	16791
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)	7239
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	7239
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3721
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2083

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)	AMD Radeon R7 M270DX
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 3.0
Code name	GP106B	Topaz
Launch date	1 February 2017	11 June 2014
Place in performance rating	642	635
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1493 MHz	940 MHz
Core clock speed	1354 MHz	900 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,911 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	59.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	4,400 million	3,100 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
G-SYNC support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	IGP
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.1 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection