NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 199.40
$ 160.99
$ 38.41 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14 %
30 %
114% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS
63 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS
46 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

21 FPS
56 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
26 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

65 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS
63 FPS
The Witcher 3 FPS

The Witcher 3 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

75 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher The Witcher 3 FPS
69 FPS
Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

High settings at 1080p

28 FPS
44 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2339
4972
112% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

219.50
414.02
88% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192
52512
136% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21230
39991
88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19745
51021
158% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20383
55573
172% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz
2310 MHz
79% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz
2815 MHz
102% 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
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s
144 GB/s
28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
42% slightly lower TDP
107 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

44.54 Gigapixels/s
90.1 Gigapixels/s
102% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s
180.2 Gigatexels/s
169% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.14 TFLOPS
5.77 TFLOPS
169% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768
1024
33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

48
64
33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
Identical
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

158th of 549
85th of 549

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

October 2016
January 2022

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon RX 6500 XT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6500 XT beats the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly 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 6500 XT 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 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 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT at 107 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.

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