NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 VS AMD Radeon RX 580
nvidia
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory640
Cores112.1 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce GTX 1050
amd
Brand8GB GDDR5
Memory2304
Cores256 GB/s
BandwidthRadeon RX 580
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
GeForce GTX 1050
$109 • Oct 2016
Radeon RX 580
$229 • Apr 2017
AMD Radeon RX 580
Specs Comparison
| Specification | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 | AMD Radeon RX 580 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 2 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| TDP | 75 W | 185 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1455 MHz | 1340 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 112.1 GB/s | 256 GB/s |
| Process Size | 14nm | 14nm |
| Architecture | Pascal | GCN 4.0 |
| Shading Units | 640 | 2304 |
| RT Cores | N/A | N/A |
| TMUs | 40 | 144 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| Memory Bus | 128-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1752 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 46.56 GPixel/s | 42.88 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 112.1 GTexel/s | 256 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 1.862 GFLOPS | 6.175 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 1.00 MB | 2.00 MB |
| Die Size | 132 mm² | 232 mm² |
| Transistors | 3300 Million | 5700 Million |
| Required PSU | 250 W | 450 W |
| Power Connectors | None | 1x 8-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 12.1 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | Samsung | GlobalFoundries |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
AMD Radeon RX 580
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
AMD Radeon RX 580
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
AMD Radeon RX 580
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
AMD Radeon RX 580
Game Benchmarks Comparison (9 benchmarks)
PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2019
Darksiders III
Call of Cthulhu
AMD Radeon RX 580 Wins!
Based on 9 benchmarks across 3 games
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
NVIDIA • 2GB GDDR5
AMD Radeon RX 580
AMD • 8GB GDDR5
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