GeForce GTX 1050 and Radeon R9 290X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon R9 290X2
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
N17P-G1
Hawaii
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2016
June 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
300 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
None
4x 8-pin
SLI
-
-
SLI options
-
-
Boost clock speed
1392 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1290 MHz
1000 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,862 gflops
2x 5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,300 million
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
2816
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
580 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
-
Texture fill rate
58.20
176.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
7008 MHz
5400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
345.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
2.2
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
Ansel
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-