AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, 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

$ 139.19
$ 110.80 significantly less expensive
$ 249.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2281 points
5507 points
141% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
135 FPS
87 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS
66 FPS
31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS
94 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS
52 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4328 points
86% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2317 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

390.99 points
2880.41 points
636% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points
97092 points
112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points
91845 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz
2317 MHz
84% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz
2572 MHz
91% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

256 GB/s
320 GB/s
25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W
130 W
42% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s
82.3 Gigapixels/s
91% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s
205.8 Gigatexels/s
6% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304
2560
11% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144
79% significantly more texture mapping units
80

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
Identical
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

192nd of 586
91st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
2025 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

Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce RTX 5050 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5050 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 580 in gaming.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5050 is faster than the Radeon RX 580.

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