AMD Radeon 860M vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon 860M, vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon 860M and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
21
12
n/a
n/a
The Witcher 3
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
16
13
9
n/a
Counter-Strike 2
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
38
22
15
n/a
Far Cry 6
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
24
25
15
n/a
Hogwarts Legacy
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
15
11
10
n/a
COD Modern Warfare 3
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
29
24
14
11
Ghost of Tsushima
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
11
n/a
n/a
n/a
Cyberpunk 2077
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
10
n/a
n/a
n/a
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
23
16
12
n/a
Avg FPS
1080p Highn/a21
1080p Ultran/a15
1440p Ultran/a11
4K Ultran/a-
Deviationn/aLow

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon 860M
2572
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
1831
Time Spyn/a1735
Fire Striken/a6771
Night Raidn/a27045
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon 860M
25630
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
20580
Background Blur57.2 frames/s52.5 frames/s
Face Detection30.5 frames/s24.9 frames/s
Horizon Detection0.83 Gpix/sec0.79 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection1.16 Gpix/sec1.16 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur0.93 Gpix/sec1.25 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching0.35 Gpix/sec0.2 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching97.8 Gpix/sec65.5 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics3933.5 fps1832.4 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
AMD Radeon 860M
n/a
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
5028
G2D Markn/a457
DirectX 11n/a38 fps
DirectX 12n/a20 fps
GPU Computen/a2089 Ops/s
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins (High 4K)
AMD Radeon 860M
n/a
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
30 fps
Aztec Ruins (Normal)n/a174.9 fps
Car Chasen/a160.4 fps
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p)n/a143.1 fps
T-Rexn/a650.7 fps
ALU 2n/a631.8 fps
Driver Overhead 2n/a231 fps
APIn/aOpenGL
OSn/aWindows
Tessellationn/a759.5

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Announced January, 7, 2025 October, 25, 2016
Form Factor Laptop use PC use
Use case Universal Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.5 Pascal
Codename Krackan Point GP107
Price n/a 109

GPU

GPU Frequency n/a 1354 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 3000 MHz 1455 MHz
Shader Units 512 640
TMUs 32 40
ROPs 16 32
Execution Units 8 5
Ray Tracing Cores 8 No
Tensor Cores n/a No
L1 cache n/a 48 KB/core
L2 cache n/a 1024 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 4 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 48 Gpix/sec 47 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 96 GTex/s 58 GTex/s
FLOPS 6.1 TFLOPS 1.9 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 15-54 W 75 W
Process TSMC Samsung
Process tech. 4 nm 14 nm
Max temperature 100 °C n/a
Transistor Size n/a 132 mm²
Transistor count n/a 3 billion
Transistor density n/a 22.73 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface System Shared GDDR5
Memory Frequency n/a 1752 MHz
Bus n/a 128 bit
ECC support n/a No
Effective Memory Speed n/a 7000 MB/s
Memory Size n/a 2 GB
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon 860M
n/a
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
112.1 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA n/a 6.1
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider AMD Radeon 860M the clear winner in this comparison.

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