NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 590

Price

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$ 206.47

$ 42.32 slightly less expensive

$ 248.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1456 points

2466 points

69% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

52 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

38 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

52 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

20 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2341 points

4729 points

102% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834 points

49268 points

528% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192 points

52086 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21230 points

48483 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7834 points

59450 points

658% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points

45746 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20196 points

55240 points

173% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

1545 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz

1545 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

256 GB/s

128% 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

44.54 Gigapixels/s

49.54 Gigapixels/s

11% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s

222.48 Gigatexels/s

232% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.14 TFLOPS

7.12 TFLOPS

232% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

2304

200% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

200% 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

237th of 586

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2018 November

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

4.5

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon RX 590 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 590 beats the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 590 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 590 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 590 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 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 590 over the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.