GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsOland ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders640vs320
Compute Units5vs5
Core clock1354 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs40vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP75 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better