NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 560

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 149.39

$ 20.60 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

40% slightly better overall score

825 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

Identical

18 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

13% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

130.09 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

21032 points

168% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

21086 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

19493 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

23476 points

200% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

20226 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

23100 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

15% slightly higher core clock speed

1175 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

14% slightly higher boost clock speed

1275 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

6% slightly lower TDP

80 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

128% significantly higher pixel rate

20.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

81.6 Gigatexels/s

40% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

2.61 TFLOPS

40% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

1024

60% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

60% significantly 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

254th of 586

275th 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 560 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 560 in gaming.

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. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 560 has significantly more memory with 4 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 slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 560 at 80 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 GeForce GTX 1050 over the Radeon RX 560.