NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 470

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 4268.01 significantly less expensive

$ 4438.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

1827 points

57% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

38 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

27 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

38 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

Identical

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

3668 points

76% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

38292 points

389% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

39085 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

41542 points

131% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

41978 points

436% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

33559 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

42112 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

46% significantly higher core clock speed

926 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

20% slightly higher boost clock speed

1206 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

8 GiB

300% 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

211 GB/s

88% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

20% slightly higher pixel rate

38.59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

154.4 Gigatexels/s

165% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

4.94 TFLOPS

165% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

2048

220% significantly more shading units

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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586

219th 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 470 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 470 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 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 GeForce GTX 1050 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 470 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 470 at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 470 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050.