Radeon X1050 vs GeForce GT 720

Radeon X1050
Memory: 128Mb DDRDESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2008
Radeon X1050
GeForce GT 720
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2014
GeForce GT 720

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon X1050

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720

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)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 720

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 720

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon X1050GeForce GT 720
GPU NameRV410 ()vsGK208 ()
Fab Process110 nmvs28 nm
Die Size156 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors120 millionvsunknown
Shaders0vs192
Compute Units0vs1
Core clock400 MHzvs797 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs8vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon X1050GeForce GT 720
Memory TypeDDRvsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed200 MHz
400 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size128 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon X1050GeForce GT 720
TDP24 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date25 Jan 2008vs29 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon X1050
    3.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    3.19 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon X1050
    3.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.75 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon X1050
    3.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon X1050
    1.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720
    306.05 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better