Graphics card comparison
GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 7950 Boost
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 1050
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 25 Oct 2016
DESKTOP
VS
AMD
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
3072 Mb GDDR5
Released 22 Jun 2012
DESKTOP
Summary
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1050
- 125 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7950 Boost .
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 7950 Boost
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports Mantle
- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GTX 1050 | Radeon HD 7950 Boost |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP107 (GP107-300-A1) | Tahiti (Tahiti PRO2) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 132 mm² | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,300 million | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 640 | 1792 |
| Compute Units | 5 | 28 |
| Core clock | 1354 MHz | 850 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| TMUs | 40 | 112 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GTX 1050 | Radeon HD 7950 Boost |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1050 | Radeon HD 7950 Boost |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | 200 watts |
| Release Date | 25 Oct 2016 | 22 Jun 2012 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GTX 105043.30 GP/s
- Radeon HD 7950 Boost27.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GTX 105054.20 GT/s
- Radeon HD 7950 Boost95.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GTX 1050112.10 GB/s
- Radeon HD 7950 Boost240.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GTX 10501733.10 GFLOPs
- Radeon HD 7950 Boost3046.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better