NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6700

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 10 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

5776 points

446% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

116 FPS

92 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

87 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

103 FPS

87 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

50 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2108 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2007 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points

1351.36 points

696% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

92543 points

472% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

107859 points

501% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

1941 MHz

94% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

2450 MHz

115% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

10 GiB

150% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

160 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

320 GB/s

185% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

133% significantly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

156.8 Gigapixels/s

760% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

352.8 Gigatexels/s

674% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

2304

259% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

259% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 586

86th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2021 June

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 6700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6700 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6700 has a significantly 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 6700 also has a significantly 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 the Radeon RX 6700 has significantly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 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 significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 at 175 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6700 over the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q.