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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon RX 570X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1455MHz vs 1244MHz)
Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)
AMD Radeon RX 570X 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1050
1.862 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 570X +173%
5.095 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Oct 2016
Release Date
Apr 2018
GeForce 10
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz
Base Clock
1168 MHz
1455 MHz
Boost Clock
1244 MHz
1752 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.1GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
32
5
SM Count
-
640
Shading Units
2048
40
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.81 GPixel/s
58.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
159.2 GTexel/s
29.10 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
5.095 TFLOPS
1.862 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.095 TFLOPS
58.20 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
318.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107
GPU Name
Polaris 20
GP107-300-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Samsung
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
14 nm
Process Size
14 nm
3.3 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
132 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
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