NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M 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

1993 points

88% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

44 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

31 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

38 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

18 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2108 points

4472 points

112% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points

358.91 points

111% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17020 points

36948 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16857 points

34067 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

38725 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

44878 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

1375 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

1645 MHz

44% significantly 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

224 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

13% slightly lower TDP

85 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

52.6 Gigapixels/s

188% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

144.76 Gigatexels/s

217% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

1408

120% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 586

209th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 5500M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5500M GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5500M 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 5500M also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500M at 85 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5500M over the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q.