GeForce GTX 1050 and Radeon X1900 XT - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1050

Radeon X1900 XT

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

R500 (2005−2007)

GPU code name

N17P-G1

R580

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2016

January 2006

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

SLI

-

-

SLI options

-

-

Boost clock speed

1392 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1290 MHz

625 MHz

CUDA cores

640

-

Floating-point performance

1,862 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

3,300 million

384 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

-

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

100 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

97 °C

-

Texture fill rate

58.20

10.00

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

7008 MHz

1450 MBps

Memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

46.4 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)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.5

2.1 (full) Shader Model6.43.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

Ansel

+

-

GameStream

+

-

GPU Boost

3.0

-

VR Ready

+

-