Radeon RX 560X vs GeForce GTX 1050

Radeon RX 560X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Apr 2018
Radeon RX 560X
GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 560X

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1050

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 560XGeForce GTX 1050
GPU NamePolaris 21 (Polaris 21 XT
(215-0908004))
vsGP107 (GP107-300-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs14 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs132 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs3,300 million
Shaders1024vs640
Compute Units16vs5
Core clock1175 MHzvs1354 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs64vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 560XGeForce GTX 1050
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 560XGeForce GTX 1050
TDP75 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date11 Apr 2018vs25 Oct 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 560X
    20.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 560X
    81.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 560X
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 560X
    2611.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better