GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs ATI Radeon VE

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1531	439
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	9.66
Architecture	Rage 6 (2000−2007)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	Rage 6	GP107
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	19 February 2001 (23 years ago)	3 January 2018 (7 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 cores	no data	640
Core clock speed	183 MHz	1190 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1328 MHz
Number of transistors	30 million	3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	180 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	23 Watt	75 Watt
Texture fill rate	0.55	53.12
Floating-point processing power	no data	1.7 TFLOPS
ROPs	1	16
TMUs	3	40

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 size	no data	large
Interface	AGP 4x	PCIe 3.0 x16
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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 type	DDR	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	4 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	183 MHz	1752 MHz
Memory bandwidth	2.928 GB/s	112.1 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 Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	7.0	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	no data	6.4
OpenGL	1.3	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	-	6.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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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 HD	no data	45
1440p	no data	27
4K	no data	15

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	19 February 2001	3 January 2018
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	4 GB
Chip lithography	180 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	23 Watt	75 Watt

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