Radeon RX 5500 XT vs GeForce GTX 1050

Radeon RX 5500 XT
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Dec 2019
Radeon RX 5500 XT
GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5500 XT

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050

55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 5500 XT .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 5500 XT

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5500 XT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5500 XTGeForce GTX 1050
GPU NameNavi 14 (Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396))vsGP107 (GP107-300-A1)
Fab Process7 nmvs14 nm
Die Size158 mm²vs132 mm²
Transistors6,400 millionvs3,300 million
Shaders1408vs640
Compute Units22vs5
Core clock1607 MHzvs1354 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs88vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5500 XTGeForce GTX 1050
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5500 XTGeForce GTX 1050
TDP130 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date12 Dec 2019vs25 Oct 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    59.04 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    162.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    5196.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better