AMD Radeon HD 7870
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
AMD Radeon HD 7870
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 7870 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

269
Place in performance rating
250
35.89
Value for money (0-100)
40.57
GCN
Architecture
Pascal
Pitcairn XT
Code name
GP107
Desktop
Type
Desktop
5 March 2012 (9 years ago)
Release date
25 October 2016 (5 years ago)
$412.83
Launch price (MSRP)
$109
$406 (1x MSRP)
Price now
$349 (3.2x MSRP)
4.82
Value for money
15.09
Pitcairn XT
GPU code name
N17P-G1
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 7870 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1280
Pipelines
640
1000 MHz
Core clock speed
1290 MHz
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Boost Clock
1392 MHz
2800 Million
Transistor count
3,300 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
175 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
80.00
Texture fill rate
58.20
no data
Floating-point performance
1,862 gflops
no data
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
no data
CUDA cores
640
1280
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
no data
Boost clock speed
1392 MHz
2800 Million
Number of transistors
3,300 million
175 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
75 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 7870 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
241 mm
Length
5.7" (14.5 cm)
2x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
None
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SLI options
-
no data
Recommended system power (PSU)
300 Watt
no data
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
no data
Width
2-slot
no data
Height
4.38" (11.1 cm)
no data
SLI
-

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 7870 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
4800 MHz
Memory clock speed
7008 MHz
153.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 7870 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Display Connectors
DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
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G-SYNC support
+
no data
Multi monitor support
+
no data
HDCP
2.2
+
Eyefinity
no data
+
HDMI
+

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 7870 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 is the additional functionality.

no data
VR Ready
+
no data
Multi Monitor
+
no data
3D Vision
+
no data
GPU Boost
3.0
no data
CUDA
+
no data
Multi-Projection
+
no data
Ansel
+
no data
ShadowWorks
+
no data
GameStream
+
+
CrossFire
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 7870 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX 11.1, Shader 5.1
DirectX
12 (12_1)
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OpenGL
4.5
no data
Vulkan
1.2.131
no data
Shader Model
6.4
no data
OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 7870 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 7870 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7870
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7870
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7870
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 133 62 40.8 25.9
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7870
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 177 62.2 38.2 30.7 19
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 7870
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 52.5 39.3 31.3 28.2
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 7870

More pipelines (1280 vs 640)

More memory bandwidth (153.6 GB/s vs 112 GB/s)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

4.74% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($349 (3.2x MSRP) vs $406 (1x MSRP))

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 28 nm)

Less power consumption (75 Watt vs 175 Watt)

G-SYNC support

VR Ready

Multi Monitor

So, AMD Radeon HD 7870 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 .

AMD Radeon HD 7870 versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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