
GeForce GTX 1050 and Radeon HD 2900 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 2900 XT
GeForce GTX 1050
5198
Radeon HD 2900 XT
679
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon HD 2900 XT
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
N17P-G1
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2016
May 2007
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
300 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI
-
-
SLI options
-
-
Boost clock speed
1392 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1290 MHz
743 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,862 gflops
475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
3,300 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
320
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
215 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
58.20
11.89
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
7008 MHz
1656 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
106.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
2.2
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
3.3
Shader Model
6.4
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
Ansel
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-