NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 540

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 540 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1057 points

200% significantly better overall score

352 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

24 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17020 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10620 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9390 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9443 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

1219 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

1219 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

19.5 Gigapixels/s

7% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

16% slightly higher texture rate

39.01 Gigatexels/s

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 586

359th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 540 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 540 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 540 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 540 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q is better than the Radeon RX 540.