In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon X1050 are significantly better than the Nvidia GeForce 7100 GS Inno3D 256MB Edition.

The Radeon X1050 was released over a year more recently than the 7100 GS, and so the Radeon X1050 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the 7100 GS.

Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.

The 7100 GS has 128 MB more video memory than the Radeon X1050, so is likely to be slightly better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the 7100 GS also has superior memory performance overall.

The Radeon X1050 has 1 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the 7100 GS, which means that the memory performance of the Radeon X1050 is marginally better than the 7100 GS.

Both the GeForce 7100 GS Inno3D 256MB Edition and the Radeon X1050 have 4 Shader Processing Units. The two GPUs are based on different architectures, but deliver an equivalent shader performance. To compare, we must continue to look at the memory bandwidth, Texture and Pixel Rates. In this case, we sadly do not have enough data in this area to complete the comparison.

The Radeon X1050 requires 24 Watts to run but there is no entry for the 7100 GS. We would recommend a PSU with at least 300 Watts for the Radeon X1050, but we do not have a recommended PSU wattage for the 7100 GS.