AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1455MHz vs 1275MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.1GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 +40%

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 560 +2%

1796

GeForce GTX 1050

1760

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 560

3

GeForce GTX 1050 +166%

8

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 560

12

GeForce GTX 1050 +50%

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 560

21

GeForce GTX 1050 +47%

31

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 560

11

GeForce GTX 1050 +27%

14

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 560 +10%

32

GeForce GTX 1050

29

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 560 +11%

40

GeForce GTX 1050

36

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 560

94

GeForce GTX 1050 +58%

149

Radeon RX 560

VS

GeForce GTX 1050

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2016

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1354 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1455 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1752 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

5

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.56 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.20 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.10 GFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.862 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

58.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

GP107

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

GP107-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3 billion

Transistors

3.3 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

132 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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