GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 270

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Radeon R9 270
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Nov 2013
Radeon R9 270

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 270 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 270

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 TiRadeon R9 270
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-400-A1)vsCuracao (Curacao PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders768vs1280
Compute Units6vs20
Core clock1290 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs48vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 TiRadeon R9 270
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 TiRadeon R9 270
TDP75 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs13 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    41.30 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    61.90 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    72.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    112.10 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 270
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    1981.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 270
    2304.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better