NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 560

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560 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

28% slightly better overall score

825 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

18 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2108 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

130.09 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17020 points

21086 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16857 points

19493 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

20226 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

23100 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

1175 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

1275 MHz

11% 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

0.09% slightly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

6% slightly lower TDP

80 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

20.4 Gigapixels/s

11% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

81.6 Gigatexels/s

79% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

1024

60% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

60% significantly 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

275th 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 560 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 560 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 560 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 560 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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 560 at 80 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q is better than the Radeon RX 560.