AMD Radeon RX 570 vs GeForce RTX 5050
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AMD Radeon RX 570
Polaris 20
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050
GB207-300
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 570 4 GB with 2048 shaders against the 8 years and 4 months newer GeForce RTX 5050 8 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5050
- Performs significantly better (up to 2.7x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 3x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 67 vs 22 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- 2.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (13.2 vs 5.1 TFLOPS)
- Ray-tracing support with 20 dedicated RT cores
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 67 34 28 15 |
121 74 64 45 |
| The Witcher 3 | 42 37 19 12 |
135 109 80 45 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 64 45 29 13 |
196 151 111 55 |
| Far Cry 6 | 49 41 30 15 |
102 95 72 42 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 29 23 15 - |
74 62 48 24 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 42 35 25 13 |
92 83 59 37 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 29 19 13 9 |
71 55 42 26 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 28 24 14 - |
80 73 42 19 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 50 45 26 13 |
121 113 83 41 |
| 1080p High | 44 | 110 |
| 1080p Ultra | 34 | 91 |
| 1440p Ultra | 22 | 67 |
| 4K Ultra | 12 | 37 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 3855 | 10202 |
| Solar Bay | - | 47163 |
| Port Royal | - | 6167 |
| Fire Strike | 13443 | 28681 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 7938 | 18924 |
| Night Raid | 50382 | 111533 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 55.7 img/sec | 129.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 31.3 img/sec | 94.6 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1.41 Gpixels/sec | 3.45 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 2.82 Gpixels/sec | 4.41 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 2.57 Gpixels/sec | 4.43 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.31 Gpixels/sec | 1.16 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 143.2 Gpixels/sec | 434.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 5080.1 FPS | 13990.8 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 725 | 1058 |
| DirectX 11 | 55 FPS | 152 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 39 FPS | 65 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 2872 Ops/s | 8416 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 570
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 5050
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-08-25 (Sohail) | Cinebench 2024 | 34368 |
| 📘 2026-02-22 (Alex Paulino) | Cinebench 2024 | 39492 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 2676 | 7103 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 3757 | 22390 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 6179 | 17642 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 10752 | 40054 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 35488 | 66253 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1051 | 3436 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 1933 | 5705 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 3048 | 8910 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 12040 | 31732 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 71201 | 107993 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 570 and GeForce RTX 5050General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | April 18, 2017 | June 24, 2025 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $169 | $249 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 | Blackwell 2.0 |
| GPU Codename | Polaris 20 | GB207-300 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti | - |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 8500 or above | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (84th and 54th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1168 MHz | 2317 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1244 MHz | 2572 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 2560 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 128 | 80 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 20 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 80 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | No | 20 |
| L1 Cache | 16KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 32MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 40 GPixel/s | 82 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 159 GTexel/s | 206 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 5.0 x8 |
| TGP | 150 W | 130 W |
| Manufacturing | GlobalFoundries | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 14 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | 149 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 5 billion | 16.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 21.55 MTr/mm² | 113.42 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | - | 87°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 4 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 7000 Mbps | 20000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 12.0 |
| Ray Tracing | No | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 4 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 2.1b |
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