NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon RX 540

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 540 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 540

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 25.99

$ 144.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

229% significantly better overall score

352 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

9 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10620 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9390 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9443 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

11% slightly higher core clock speed

1219 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

19% slightly higher boost clock speed

1219 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

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

138% significantly higher pixel rate

19.5 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

49% significantly higher texture rate

39.01 Gigatexels/s

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% 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

359th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2017 April

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 540 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 540 in our tests.

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: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 540 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 over the Radeon RX 540.