NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5600

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 29.99 slightly less expensive

$ 199.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

3570 points

208% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

77 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

56 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

69 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

33 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

40% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1479 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

609.00 points

257% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

48650 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

37453 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

76653 points

879% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

62239 points

246% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

53743 points

213% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

1130 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

1560 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

288 GB/s

156% 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

99.84 Gigapixels/s

114% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

199.68 Gigatexels/s

243% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

6.39 TFLOPS

243% 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

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586

135th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon RX 5600 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5600 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 5600 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 5600 has significantly more memory with 6 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 5600 at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5600 over the GeForce GTX 1050.