Radeon R5 230 vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile with Radeon R5 230, including specs and performance data.

GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
2017
4 GB GDDR5, 75 Watt
15.40
+2602%

GTX 1050 Ti Mobile outperforms R5 230 by a whopping 2602% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking3421203
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.222.08
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGP107Caicos
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Designno datareference
Release date3 January 2017 (7 years ago)3 April 2014 (10 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 cores768160
Core clock speed1493 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1620 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,300 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt19 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature97 °Cno data
Texture fill rate77.765.000
Floating-point processing power2.488 TFLOPS0.2 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs488

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportno dataPCIe 1.0 x4
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataN/A

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed7 GB/sno data
Memory bandwidth112 GB/s10.67 GB/s
Shared memory-no 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 outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity-+
HDMI-+
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

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

CrossFire-+
​PowerPlayno data+
DDMA audiono data-
Ansel+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)DirectX® 11
Shader Model6.45.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.131-
CUDA+-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD56
+2700%
2−3
−2700%
1440p250−1
4K170−1

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 43
+4200%
1−2
−4200%
Battlefield 5 59
+2850%
2−3
−2850%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 47
+4600%
1−2
−4600%
Far Cry 5 47
+4600%
1−2
−4600%
Far Cry New Dawn 46
+4500%
1−2
−4500%
Forza Horizon 4 62
+3000%
2−3
−3000%
Red Dead Redemption 2 33
+3200%
1−2
−3200%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 39
+3800%
1−2
−3800%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 37
+3600%
1−2
−3600%
Battlefield 5 49
+4800%
1−2
−4800%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 33
+3200%
1−2
−3200%
Far Cry 5 44
+4300%
1−2
−4300%
Far Cry New Dawn 42
+4100%
1−2
−4100%
Forza Horizon 4 57
+2750%
2−3
−2750%
Metro Exodus 19 0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2 40−45
+4100%
1−2
−4100%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 33
+3200%
1−2
−3200%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 47
+4600%
1−2
−4600%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 23 0−1
Battlefield 5 42
+4100%
1−2
−4100%
Far Cry 5 40
+3900%
1−2
−3900%
Far Cry New Dawn 38
+3700%
1−2
−3700%
Forza Horizon 4 43
+4200%
1−2
−4200%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 26 0−1

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 21 0−1
Metro Exodus 12 0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2 24−27 0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 17 0−1

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 14−16 0−1
Battlefield 5 29
+2800%
1−2
−2800%
Far Cry 5 26 0−1
Far Cry New Dawn 27 0−1
Forza Horizon 4 80−85
+3900%
2−3
−3900%

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 0−1
Metro Exodus 7 0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2 14−16 0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 8 0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 17 0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 9−10 0−1
Battlefield 5 14−16 0−1
Far Cry 5 12 0−1
Far Cry New Dawn 13 0−1
Forza Horizon 4 21−24 0−1

This is how GTX 1050 Ti Mobile and R5 230 compete in popular games:

  • GTX 1050 Ti Mobile is 2700% faster in 1080p

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 15.40 0.57
Recency 3 January 2017 3 April 2014
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 19 Watt

GTX 1050 Ti Mobile has a 2601.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

R5 230, on the other hand, has 294.7% lower power consumption.

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R5 230 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon R5 230 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
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