Radeon RX 480 and GeForce GTX 1050 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon RX 480
8883
GeForce GTX 1050
5198
Radeon RX 480
GeForce GTX 1050
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
N17P-G1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2016
October 2016
Bus support
n/a
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI
-
-
SLI options
-
-
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
1392 MHz
Compute units
36
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
1290 MHz
CUDA cores
-
640
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
1,862 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
3,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
640
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
97 °C
Texture fill rate
182.3
58.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
7008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
112 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
2.0
+
HDCP
-
2.2
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
n/a
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
Ansel
-
+
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
-
FRTC
1
-
GameStream
-
+
GPU Boost
-
3.0
HD3D
n/a
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
n/a
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
VR Ready
-
+
ZeroCore
+
-