NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 480

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 1498.99 significantly less expensive

$ 1668.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

2142 points

84% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

44 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

33 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

45 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

17 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

4130 points

98% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

349.71 points

105% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

42415 points

442% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

44522 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

48947 points

172% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

51028 points

552% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

42732 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

49182 points

186% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

1266 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

14% slightly higher boost clock speed

1266 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

224 GB/s

99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

100% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

14% slightly higher pixel rate

40.51 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

182.3 Gigatexels/s

213% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

5.83 TFLOPS

213% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

2304

259% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

259% 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

253rd of 586

199th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2016 June

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 480 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 480 beats the GeForce GTX 1050 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 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 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 480 has significantly more memory with 8 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, the GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 480 at 150 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 480 over the GeForce GTX 1050.