NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 590

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 78.80 significantly less expensive

$ 248.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points

2466 points

112% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

52 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

38 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

52 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

20 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points

4729 points

127% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

49268 points

529% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

52086 points

180% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

48483 points

170% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points

59450 points

659% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

45746 points

154% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

55240 points

221% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

1545 MHz

14% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

1545 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

133% significantly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

49.54 Gigapixels/s

6% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

222.48 Gigatexels/s

282% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

7.12 TFLOPS

282% 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

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2018 November

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 590 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 590 beats the GeForce GTX 1050 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 590 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 Radeon RX 590 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 590 has significantly more memory with 8 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 addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 at 175 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 590 over the GeForce GTX 1050.