NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 580

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 139.19

$ 30.80 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

2281 points

96% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

47 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

34 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

48 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

18 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

4328 points

108% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points

390.99 points

129% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

44601 points

470% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

49182 points

164% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

54191 points

201% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

52261 points

568% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

45779 points

154% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

53514 points

211% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1340 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

256 GB/s

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

146% significantly lower TDP

185 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

42.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

192.96 Gigatexels/s

231% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

6.18 TFLOPS

231% 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

254th of 586

192nd 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 580 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 580 beats the GeForce GTX 1050 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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 580 has significantly more memory with 8 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 significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 580 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050.