Graphics card comparison
GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 370
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 1050
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 25 Oct 2016
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VS
AMD
Radeon R9 370
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 5 May 2015
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Summary
Gaming performance index
- GeForce GTX 1050101%
- Radeon R9 370100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1050
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 370
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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
These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GTX 1050 | Radeon R9 370 |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP107 (GP107-300-A1) | Trinidad (Trinidad PRO) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 132 mm² | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,300 million | 2,800 million |
| Shaders | 640 | 1280 |
| Compute Units | 5 | 24 |
| Core clock | 1354 MHz | 925 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| TMUs | 40 | 80 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GTX 1050 | Radeon R9 370 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1050 | Radeon R9 370 |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | 110 watts |
| Release Date | 25 Oct 2016 | 5 May 2015 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GTX 105043.30 GP/s
- Radeon R9 37031.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GTX 105054.20 GT/s
- Radeon R9 37078.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GTX 1050112.10 GB/s
- Radeon R9 370179.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GTX 10501733.10 GFLOPs
- Radeon R9 3702496.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Game benchmarks
Rise Of The Tomb Raider
Very High Details, Pure Hair On, FXAA/HBAO+ enabled, 16x AF, DirectX12, Windows 10 x64
- GeForce GTX 105031
- Radeon R9 37030
FPS (higher is better)
Rise Of The Tomb Raider
Very High Details, Pure Hair On, FXAA/HBAO+ enabled, 16x AF, DirectX12, Windows 10 x64
- GeForce GTX 105020
- Radeon R9 37020
FPS (higher is better)