GeForce GTX 1050 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
N17P-G1
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2016
June 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 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
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
1290 MHz
-
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,862 gflops
4,301 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,300 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
250 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
58.20
134.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
7008 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
288 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
1x 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
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
Ansel
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GameStream
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
VR Ready
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-