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AMD Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce GTX 1050

Radeon RX 580
VS
GeForce GTX 1050
AMD Radeon RX 580
Polaris 20
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
GP107

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 580 8 GB with 2304 shaders against the 6 months older GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB that utilizes 5 pipelines and 640 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

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)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
8 GB GDDR5
VS
2 GB GDDR5
48.2
(Average)
Value Index
15.3
(Bad)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1050 over RX 580
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 580
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.3x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (6.2 vs 1.9 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 2.5x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 27 vs 11 FPS
  • Includes 6 GB more video memory
  • Has 2.3x higher memory bandwidth: 256 vs 112.1 GB/s
  • Achieves 2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (40K vs 20K)
  • Has 3.6x more shading units (2304 vs 640)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 580
vs
GTX 1050

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
76
39
31
17
21
11
10
-
The Witcher 3
50
41
22
12
15
15
11
-
Counter-Strike 2
74
55
38
15
37
21
14
-
Far Cry 6
59
49
35
17
24
24
12
-
Hogwarts Legacy
34
26
20
9
14
12
9
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
48
42
27
15
28
21
16
11
Ghost of Tsushima
33
23
19
10
12
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
33
27
16
-
11
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
60
52
32
15
23
17
11
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 52 21
1080p Ultra 39 15
1440p Ultra 27 11
4K Ultra 13 -
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 580 +129%
4183
GTX 1050
1828
Time Spy 4354 1739
Port Royal 527 -
Fire Strike 14980 6772
Wild Life Extreme 8907 3881
Night Raid 56859 27079
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 580 +97%
40514
GTX 1050
20580
Background Blur 59.5 img/sec 52.5 img/sec
Face Detection 33.8 img/sec 24.9 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.56 Gpixels/sec 0.79 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.1 Gpixels/sec 1.16 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.92 Gpixels/sec 1.25 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.33 Gpixels/sec 0.2 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 161.8 Gpixels/sec 65.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5395.1 FPS 1832.4 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 580
n/a
GTX 1050
2216

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 580 +74%
8782
GTX 1050
5051
G2D Mark 770 458
DirectX 11 60 FPS 38 FPS
DirectX 12 43 FPS 21 FPS
GPU Compute 3409 Ops/s 2111 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 33466 & 25947 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 580 +131%
391.86
GTX 1050
169.32
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 91 & 261 samples
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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 580 +113%
7905
GTX 1050
3704
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 580 +151%
8166
GTX 1050
3258
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 580 +109%
5642
GTX 1050
2694
Image Classification (SP) 3143 1249
Image Segmentation (HP) 3955 1833
Image Super Resolution (Q) 7872 3934
Face Detection (HP) 11922 3004
Pose Estimation (Q) 41162 14474
Text Classification (SP) 1199 1249
Machine Translation (HP) 1773 1857
Object Detection (SP) 3620 1624
Depth Estimation (Q) 13995 5567
Style Transfer (SP) 84083 24188
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 580 and GeForce GTX 1050

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released April 18, 2017 October 25, 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $229 $109
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Entry-level
Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
GPU Codename Polaris 20 GP107
Rival Equivalent - GeForce GTX 1060 -
Successor - - GeForce GTX 1650
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 8500 or above - Intel Core i5 7400 or above
Desktop GPU rating (83rd and 92nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1257 MHz 1354 MHz
Boost Clock 1340 MHz 1455 MHz
Shading Units 2304 640
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 40
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 5
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 43 GPixel/s 47 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 193 GTexel/s 58 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 580 +226%
6.2 TFLOPS
GTX 1050
1.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 185 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

Memory

Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Size 8 GB 2 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1752 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 8000 Mbps 7000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 580 +128%
256 GB/s
GTX 1050
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
Further details
Notes on GTX 1050:
    - You can also find models with either 3GB or 4GB of memory.

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