AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

Price

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$ 488.33

$ 169.99

$ 318.34 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

365% significantly better overall score

1159 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

85 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

26 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

18 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

361% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2076 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

474% significantly higher Blender score

170.58 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

68311 points

773% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

7823 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

282% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

18573 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

216% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

17953 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

94209 points

1104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7823 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

335% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

17967 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

411% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

17163 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

18% slightly higher core clock speed

1354 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

30% slightly higher boost clock speed

1455 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

299% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112.1 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

75 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

161% significantly higher pixel rate

46.56 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

423% significantly higher texture rate

58.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

423% significantly better floating point performance

1.86 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

300% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

300% 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

93rd of 586

254th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2016 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce GTX 1050 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 Radeon RX 5700 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 5700 XT has significantly more memory with 8 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 5700 XT at 225 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5700 XT over the GeForce GTX 1050.