GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 7970

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon HD 7970
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Dec 2011
Radeon HD 7970

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    103%
  • Radeon HD 7970
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050

175 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7970 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7970

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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 1050Radeon HD 7970
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsTahiti (Tahiti XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders640vs2048
Compute Units5vs32
Core clock1354 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs40vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon HD 7970
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon HD 7970
TDP75 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs22 Dec 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7970
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7970
    118.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7970
    264.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7970
    3789.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    58
  • Radeon HD 7970
    54

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    39
  • Radeon HD 7970
    39

FPS (higher is better)