GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 8770 OEM

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon HD 8770 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Sep 2013
Radeon HD 8770 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8770 OEM

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8770 OEM
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsBonaire (Bonaire XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders640vs896
Compute Units5vs14
Core clock1354 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs40vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon HD 8770 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon HD 8770 OEM
TDP75 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs2 Sep 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    58.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better