NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 169.99
$ 489.01 significantly less expensive
$ 659.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points
11265 points
871% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS
231 FPS
204 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
167 FPS
149 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
204 FPS
186 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
97 FPS
83 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2076 points
19436 points
836% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.58 points
2414.65 points
1315% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points
150488 points
1823% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points
157812 points
749% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points
100571 points
460% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points
200077 points
2457% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points
154801 points
761% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points
157877 points
819% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz
2015 MHz
48% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz
2250 MHz
54% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB
16 GiB
700% 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
512 GB/s
356% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
300% significantly lower TDP
300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s
288 Gigapixels/s
518% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s
648 Gigatexels/s
1013% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS
20.74 TFLOPS
1013% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
4608
619% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
288
619% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
128
300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586
33rd of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October
2020 November

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 6800 XT benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6800 XT has a significantly 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 Radeon RX 6800 XT also has a significantly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6800 XT has significantly more memory with 16 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 6800 XT at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6800 XT is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050.

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