GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 370

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon R9 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 370

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    101%
  • Radeon R9 370
    100%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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 R9 370
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders640vs1280
Compute Units5vs24
Core clock1354 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs40vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon R9 370
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon R9 370
TDP75 wattsvs110 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370
    31.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370
    78.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370
    2496.00 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 1050
    31
  • Radeon R9 370
    30

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 1050
    20
  • Radeon R9 370
    20

FPS (higher is better)