GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs Radeon R9 370X

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 May 2018
GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
Radeon R9 370X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Aug 2015
Radeon R9 370X

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

105 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 370X .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 370X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBRadeon R9 370X
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-301-A1)vsTrinidad (Trinidad XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders768vs1280
Compute Units6vs24
Core clock1392 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs24vs32
TMUs48vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBRadeon R9 370X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width96 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBRadeon R9 370X
TDP75 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date21 May 2018vs27 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    36.43 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    33.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    72.86 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    82.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    84.10 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370X
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    2332.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370X
    2636.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better