GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 5970

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon HD 5970
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Nov 2009
Radeon HD 5970

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050

219 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5970 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 5970

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1050

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon HD 5970
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsHemlock (Hemlock XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders640vs1600
Compute Units5vs20
Core clock1354 MHzvs725 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs40vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon HD 5970
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit x2
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon HD 5970
TDP75 wattsvs294 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs18 Nov 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5970
    46.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5970
    116.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5970
    256.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5970
    4640.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better