AMD Radeon RX 570 vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 570 with 2048 shaders against the 6 months older GeForce GTX 1050 Ti that utilizes 6 pipelines and 768 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
4 GB GDDR5
VS
4 GB GDDR5
21.5
(Mediocre)
Value Index
14.6
(Bad)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1050 Ti over RX 570
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 570
  • Performs significantly better (up to 60%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (5.1 vs 2.1 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 57% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 22 vs 14 FPS
  • Has 2x higher memory bandwidth: 224 vs 112.1 GB/s
  • Achieves 75% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (37K vs 21K)
  • Has 2.7x more shading units (2048 vs 768)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
67
34
28
15
31
16
15
9
The Witcher 3
42
37
19
12
25
22
13
-
Counter-Strike 2
64
45
29
13
47
29
22
9
Far Cry 6
49
41
30
15
33
29
18
9
Hogwarts Legacy
29
23
15
-
18
13
10
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
42
35
25
13
28
24
17
12
Ghost of Tsushima
29
19
13
9
15
9
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
28
24
14
-
15
13
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
50
45
26
13
29
26
17
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 44 27
1080p Ultra 34 20
1440p Ultra 22 14
4K Ultra 12 -
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 570 +60%
3701
Time Spy 3855 2351
Fire Strike 13443 7702
Wild Life Extreme 7938 4901
Night Raid 50382 33499
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 570 +75%
37147
21180
Background Blur 55.7 img/sec 56.6 img/sec
Face Detection 31.3 img/sec 27.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.41 Gpixels/sec 0.82 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.82 Gpixels/sec 1.2 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.57 Gpixels/sec 1.27 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.31 Gpixels/sec 0.18 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 143.2 Gpixels/sec 66.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5080.1 FPS 1916.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 570 +24%
7909
G2D Mark 725 656
DirectX 11 55 FPS 44 FPS
DirectX 12 39 FPS 26 FPS
GPU Compute 2869 Ops/s 2669 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 24077 & 47071 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 570 +55%
329.21
212.92
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 22 & 470 samples

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 570 +67%
6885
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 570 +109%
7446
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 570 +60%
4931
Image Classification (SP) 2676 1518
Image Segmentation (HP) 3757 2085
Image Super Resolution (Q) 6179 4847
Face Detection (HP) 10752 3275
Pose Estimation (Q) 35488 16118
Text Classification (SP) 1051 1440
Machine Translation (HP) 1933 1875
Object Detection (SP) 3048 1743
Depth Estimation (Q) 12040 6258
Style Transfer (SP) 71201 26368
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 570 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released April 18, 2017 October 25, 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $169 $139
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
GPU Codename Polaris 20 GP107
Rival Equivalent - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti - Radeon RX 570
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 8500 or above -
Desktop GPU rating (85th and 89th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1168 MHz 1291 MHz
Boost Clock 1244 MHz 1392 MHz
Shading Units 2048 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 6
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache 16KB per cluster 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 40 GPixel/s 45 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 159 GTexel/s 67 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 570 +143%
5.1 TFLOPS
2.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 150 W 75 W
Manufacturing GlobalFoundries Samsung
Fabrication Process 14 nm 14 nm
Die Size 232 mm² 132 mm²
Transistor Count 5 billion 3 billion
Transistor Density 21.55 MTr/mm² 22.73 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature - 97°C

Memory

Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Size 4 GB 4 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1752 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 7000 Mbps 7000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 570 +100%
224 GB/s
112.1 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 6.1
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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