GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R7 265

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon R7 265
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 265

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 265 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 265

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 265
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders640vs1024
Compute Units5vs16
Core clock1354 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs40vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon R7 265
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 R7 265
TDP75 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    59.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 265
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 265
    1894.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better