NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 AMD Radeon RX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 9% (1455MHz vs 1340MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 112.1GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050

1.862 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 +231%

6.175 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1050

1760

Radeon RX 580 +147%

4359

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050

8

Radeon RX 580 +112%

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050

18

Radeon RX 580 +94%

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050

31

Radeon RX 580 +61%

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050

14

Radeon RX 580 +92%

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050

29

Radeon RX 580 +86%

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050

36

Radeon RX 580 +116%

78

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050

38

Radeon RX 580 +57%

60

GeForce GTX 1050

VS

Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1354 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1455 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.1GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

5

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

640

Shading Units

2304

40

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

46.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

58.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

29.10 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

1.862 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

58.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GP107-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

Board Design

75W

TDP

185W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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