GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
N17P-G1
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2016
November 2014
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1392 MHz
975 MHz
Core clock speed
1291 MHz
-
CUDA cores
768
-
Floating-point performance
2,138 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,300 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
80 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
66.82
62.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7008 MHz
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
174.7 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2
Ansel
+
-
VR Ready
+
-