GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Vs Radeon R9 280X - HWBench

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GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 280X

GeForce GTX 1050 TiMemory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOPRelease date: 25 Oct 2016

Radeon R9 280XMemory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOPRelease date: 8 Oct 2013

Summary

Gaming performance index

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti100%
• Radeon R9 280X104%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

175 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 280X .

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 280X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the game benchmark suite used (14 combinations of games and resolutions).

Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti	Radeon R9 280X
GPU Name	GP107 (GP107-400-A1)	vs	Tahiti (Tahiti XTL)
Fab Process	14 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	132 mm²	vs	352 mm²
Transistors	3,300 million	vs	4,313 million
Shaders	768	vs	2048
Compute Units	6	vs	32
Core clock	1290 MHz	vs	850 MHz
ROPs	32	vs	32
TMUs	48	vs	128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti	Radeon R9 280X
Memory Type	GDDR5	vs	GDDR5
Bus Width	128 bit	vs	384 bit
Memory Speed	1752 MHz 7008 MHz effective	vs	1500 MHz 6000 MHz effective
Memory Size	4096 Mb	vs	3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti	Radeon R9 280X
TDP	75 watts	vs	250 watts
Release Date	25 Oct 2016	vs	8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti41.30 GP/s
• Radeon R9 280X27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti61.90 GT/s
• Radeon R9 280X109.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti112.10 GB/s
• Radeon R9 280X288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti1981.40 GFLOPs
• Radeon R9 280X3482.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

1920x1080 (Full HD)2560x1440 (WQHD)3840x2160 (4K)

Anno 2205

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xAA

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti42
• Radeon R9 280X40

FPS (higher is better)

Far Cry Primal

DX11, Very High Settings

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti47
• Radeon R9 280X49

FPS (higher is better)

Gears of War 4

Ultra Quality, DirectX 12, Windows 10 x64

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti54
• Radeon R9 280X48

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti65
• Radeon R9 280X63

FPS (higher is better)

Sniper Elite 4

Ultra Quality, DirectX 12, Windows 10 x64

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti39
• Radeon R9 280X42

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti38
• Radeon R9 280X30

FPS (higher is better)

Anno 2205

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xAA

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti29
• Radeon R9 280X30

FPS (higher is better)

Far Cry Primal

DX11, Very High Settings

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti31
• Radeon R9 280X35

FPS (higher is better)

Gears of War 4

Ultra Quality, DirectX 12, Windows 10 x64

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti35
• Radeon R9 280X32

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti43
• Radeon R9 280X47

FPS (higher is better)

Sniper Elite 4

Ultra Quality, DirectX 12, Windows 10 x64

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti29
• Radeon R9 280X32

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti29
• Radeon R9 280X25

FPS (higher is better)

Sniper Elite 4

Ultra Quality, DirectX 12, Windows 10 x64

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti17
• Radeon R9 280X22

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

• GeForce GTX 1050 Ti11
• Radeon R9 280X16

FPS (higher is better)

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