GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs Radeon R9 280

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 May 2018
GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
Radeon R9 280
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2014
Radeon R9 280

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

125 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 280 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon R9 280

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBRadeon R9 280
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-301-A1)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO3)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders768vs1792
Compute Units6vs28
Core clock1392 MHzvs827 MHz
ROPs24vs32
TMUs48vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBRadeon R9 280
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width96 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBRadeon R9 280
TDP75 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date21 May 2018vs4 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    36.43 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 280
    29.86 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    72.86 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 280
    104.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    84.10 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 280
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    2332.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 280
    3344.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better