AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Tahiti GP106
GPU variant Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)
Architecture GCN 1.0 Pascal
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 16 nm
Number of transistors 4,313 million 4,400 million
Die size 352 mm² 200 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 4th, 2014
Generation Volcanic Islands
Production End-of-life
Launch price 279 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 35 in our database
Predecessor Sea Islands
Successor Pirate Islands

Clocks

Base clock 827 MHz 1354 MHz
Boost clock 933 MHz 1493 MHz
Memory clock 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective 1752 MHz 7008 MHz effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 384 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 240.0 GB/s 112.1 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1792 640
TMUs 112 40
ROPs 32 32
Compute units 28
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 768 KB 1024 KB
SM count 5

Performance

Pixel rate 29.86 GPixel/s 47.78 GPixel/s
Texture rate 104.5 GTexel/s 59.72 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 3.344 TFLOPS 1.911 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 836.0 GFLOPS (1:4) 59.72 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (half) performance 29.86 GFLOPS (1:64)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot
Length 275 mm 10.8 inches
Width 109 mm 4.3 inches
Height 36 mm 1.4 inches
TDP 200 W 75 W
Suggested PSU 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI2x HDMI1x DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None
Board number C386

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2.131
Shader model 5.1 6.4
CUDA 6.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Feb 1st, 2017
Generation GeForce 10 Mobile
Production Active
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 15 in our database

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