NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600M

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points
3199 points
176% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS
66 FPS
40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
50 FPS
32 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
56 FPS
39 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
29 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points
6119 points
194% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points
673.32 points
294% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points
51426 points
176% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points
40406 points
125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points
55712 points
210% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points
51663 points
201% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz
30% slightly higher core clock speed
1035 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz
15% slightly higher boost clock speed
1265 MHz

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
80.96 Gigapixels/s
73% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s
182.16 Gigatexels/s
212% 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

40
144
259% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
64
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586
147th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October
2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon RX 5600M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5600M beats the GeForce GTX 1050 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 5600M 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 5600M 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5600M is better than the GeForce GTX 1050.

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