GeForce GTX 1050 and Radeon HD 6970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 6970
GeForce GTX 1050
5198
Radeon HD 6970
2921
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon HD 6970
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N17P-G1
Cayman
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2016
December 2010
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 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
880 MHz
Core clock speed
1290 MHz
-
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,862 gflops
2,703.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,300 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
550 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
58.20
84.48
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7008 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
2.2
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
Ansel
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
GameStream
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
VR Ready
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-