GeForce GTX 1050 Ti mobile vs Radeon HD 7970

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 1050 Ti mobile and Radeon HD 7970, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti mobile stacks up against Radeon HD 7970, check out specs charts below.

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti mobile is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti mobile is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with GeForce GTX 1050 Ti mobile here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 1050 Ti mobile Radeon HD 7970
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 300 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 3 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 7970 has 300% more power consumption, than GeForce GTX 1050 Ti mobile.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 3.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti mobile has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 7970.
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti mobile is used in Laptops, and Radeon HD 7970 - in Desktops.
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti mobile is build with Pascal architecture, and Radeon HD 7970 - with GCN.
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti mobile is manufactured by 14 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 7970 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 7970 is 1368 MHz higher, than GeForce GTX 1050 Ti mobile.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 35−40
ultra / 1080p 21−24 21−24
QHD / 1440p 16−18 16−18
4K / 2160p 10−11 10−11
low / 720p 60−65 60−65
medium / 1080p 40−45 40−45
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti mobile and Radeon HD 7970 have the same average FPS in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 1050 Ti mobile Radeon HD 7970
Architecture Pascal GCN
Code name GP107 Tahiti XT
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 3 January 2017 22 December 2011
Pipelines 768 2048
Core clock speed 1493 MHz
Boost Clock 1620 MHz 925 MHz
Transistor count 3,300 million 4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 77.76 118.4
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops
Length 274 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 7 GB/s 1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s 264 GB/s
Shared memory - -
G-SYNC support +
DirectX 12 (12_1)
Shader Model 6.4 5.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.131
CUDA +
FreeSync +
CUDA cores 768
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 485 Mh/s
Laptop size large
Eyefinity +
Design reference
CrossFire +
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 20.71 Mh/s
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