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AMD Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Radeon RX 580
VS
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AMD Radeon RX 580
Polaris 20
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon RX 580 8 GB with 2304 shaders against the 5 years and 11 months newer GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  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
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the NanoReview Score for desktop GPU.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4050 Mobile over RX 580
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 580
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Has 33% higher memory bandwidth: 256 vs 192 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 89%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Shows 2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 53 vs 27 FPS
  • 2x higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 6.2 TFLOPS)
  • Ray-tracing support with 20 dedicated RT cores
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Achieves 2x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (81K vs 40K)
  • Features 80 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 580
vs
RTX 4050 Laptop

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
76
39
31
17
107
66
56
35
The Witcher 3
50
41
22
12
117
91
67
34
Counter-Strike 2
74
55
38
15
167
126
88
43
Far Cry 6
59
49
35
17
87
79
59
32
Hogwarts Legacy
34
26
20
9
62
52
34
20
CoD: Modern Warfare III
48
42
27
15
75
68
44
30
Ghost of Tsushima
33
23
19
10
57
45
33
17
Cyberpunk 2077
33
27
16
-
61
57
34
13
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
60
52
32
15
98
90
62
32
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 52 92
1080p Ultra 39 75
1440p Ultra 27 53
4K Ultra 13 28
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
4183
RTX 4050 Laptop +89%
7909
Time Spy 4354 8212
Solar Bay - 35375
Port Royal 527 4624
Fire Strike 14980 21909
Wild Life Extreme 8907 15492
Night Raid 56859 84848
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 580
40514
RTX 4050 Laptop +101%
81436
Background Blur 59.5 img/sec 141.4 img/sec
Face Detection 33.8 img/sec 84.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.56 Gpixels/sec 3.07 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.1 Gpixels/sec 3.91 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.92 Gpixels/sec 3.85 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.33 Gpixels/sec 1.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 161.8 Gpixels/sec 325.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 5395.1 FPS 11008.8 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 580
8782
RTX 4050 Laptop +62%
14217
G2D Mark 770 622
DirectX 11 60 FPS 129 FPS
DirectX 12 43 FPS 60 FPS
GPU Compute 3409 Ops/s 5847 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 33466 & 14311 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 580
391.86
RTX 4050 Laptop +555%
2567.25
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 91 & 2120 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 580
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GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-17 (kam)Geekbench 6 OpenCL93074
📘 2026-07-15 (Mr._.Flexo)Cinebench 20248096
📘 2026-07-02 (SuperDuck)Geekbench 6 OpenCL90032
📘 2026-05-18 (TheMan)Cinebench 20248523
📘 2026-05-15 -> ZayGeekbench 6 OpenCL89343
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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
7905
RTX 4050 Laptop +97%
15570
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 580
8166
RTX 4050 Laptop +233%
27160
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 580
5642
RTX 4050 Laptop +117%
12230
Image Classification (SP) 3143 6233
Image Segmentation (HP) 3955 16395
Image Super Resolution (Q) 7872 18240
Face Detection (HP) 11922 30758
Pose Estimation (Q) 41162 61300
Text Classification (SP) 1199 3124
Machine Translation (HP) 1773 4357
Object Detection (SP) 3620 7812
Depth Estimation (Q) 13995 29192
Style Transfer (SP) 84083 117759
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 580 and GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released April 18, 2017 February 22, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $229 -
Case Desktop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Entry-level
Architecture GCN 4.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Polaris 20 AD107 (GN21-X2)
Rival Equivalent - GeForce GTX 1060 - Radeon RX 7700S
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 8500 or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Desktop GPU rating (#83rd place)
Laptop GPU ranking (#66th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1257 MHz 1140-2070 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1340 MHz 1605-2370 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2304 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 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 12MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 43 GPixel/s 51-76 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 193 GTexel/s 128-190 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 580
6.2 TFLOPS
RTX 4050 Laptop +95%
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 185 W 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing GlobalFoundries TSMC
Fabrication Process 14 nm 5 nm
Die Size 232 mm² 156 mm²
Transistor Count 5 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 21.55 MTr/mm² 121.15 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 8000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 96-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 580 +33%
256 GB/s
RTX 4050 Laptop
192 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 8.9
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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