GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs Radeon HD 7950M

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated436
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data9.63
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameWimbledonGP107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date24 April 2012 (12 years ago)3 January 2018 (6 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 cores1280640
Core clock speed700 MHz1190 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1328 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate56.0053.12
Floating-point processing power1.792 TFLOPS1.7 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs8040

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 sizelargelarge
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1752 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s112.1 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 April 2012 3 January 2018
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

GTX 1050 Max-Q has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7950M and GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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