GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB vs Radeon HD 8970M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking444not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.24no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameNeptuneGP107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date14 May 2013 (11 years ago)1 February 2019 (5 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 cores1280768
Core clock speed850 MHz1366 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz1442 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate72.0069.22
Floating-point processing power2.304 TFLOPS2.215 TFLOPS
ROPs3224
TMUs8048

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
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16

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 amount4 GB3 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1752 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s84.1 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
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2013 1 February 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 3 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 75 Watt

HD 8970M has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 8970M
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