GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Mar 2013
Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Summary

Reasons to consider 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 Mac Edition .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 7950 Mac Edition

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1050Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders640vs1792
Compute Units5vs28
Core clock1354 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs40vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
TDP75 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs7 Mar 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
    89.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
    2867.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better