NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon RX 460

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 460 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

1159 points

42% slightly better overall score

816 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

17% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1768 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

17920 points

129% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

21824 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

20340 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

22320 points

185% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

18277 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

24052 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

1090 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

1200 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% 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

0.09% slightly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

Identical

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

142% significantly higher pixel rate

19.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

67.2 Gigatexels/s

15% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

2.15 TFLOPS

15% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

896

40% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

253rd of 586

278th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2016 August

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 vs Radeon RX 460 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 460 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1050 has a slightly 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 GeForce GTX 1050 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 460 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1050 and the Radeon RX 460 have an identical TDP. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1050 is faster than the Radeon RX 460.