Radeon R3 Graphics vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking392not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameno dataBeema
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release dateApril 2018 (6 years ago)28 January 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores768128
Core clock speed1366 MHz267 MHz
Boost clock speed1442 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistorsno data930 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data4.800
Floating-point processing powerno data0.1536 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataIGP
Widthno dataIGP

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount3 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width96 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1752 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth84 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Multi-Projection+no data
Multi Monitor+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.3
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan+1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm

Nvidia GTX 1050 3GB Mobile has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile and Radeon R3 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon R3 Graphics is a desktop one.


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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile
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