GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB vs Radeon R4 Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameBeemaGP107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date11 June 2014 (10 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 cores128768
Core clock speed800 MHz1366 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1442 MHz
Number of transistors930 million3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate6.40069.22
Floating-point processing power0.2048 TFLOPS2.215 TFLOPS
ROPs424
TMUs848

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x16
WidthIGPno data

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared3 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared96 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1752 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data84.1 GB/s

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 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 June 2014 1 February 2019
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 75 Watt

R4 Graphics has 400% lower power consumption.

GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R4 Graphics and GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R4 Graphics is a desktop card while GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R4 Graphics
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