NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 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

10978 points

938% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

226 FPS

202 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

162 FPS

146 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

205 FPS

190 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

90 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2108 points

3719 points

76% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points

1584.42 points

833% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

90142 points

458% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

115648 points

545% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

3130 MHz

174% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

16 GiB

300% significantly more memory

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

320 GB/s

185% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

200.3 Gigapixels/s

999% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

220% 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

267th of 597

36th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

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 9060 XT benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 9060 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 9060 XT over the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q.