GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 360 OEM

GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
Radeon R9 360 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 360 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 360 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 360 OEM
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-300-A1)vsTobago (Tobago PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders640vs768
Compute Units5vs12
Core clock1354 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs40vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon R9 360 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050Radeon R9 360 OEM
TDP75 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date25 Oct 2016vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    48.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 360 OEM
    1536.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better