Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Radeon RX 6500 XT
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Jan 2022
Radeon RX 6500 XT
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    187%
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6500 XT

87% higher gaming performance.
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)
Infinity Cache allows to deliver up to 3.25x the effective memory bandwidth
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6500 XT

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 6500 XT

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (4 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce GTX 1050 Ti
GPU NameNavi 24 (Navi 24 XT)vsGP107 (GP107-400-A1)
Fab Process6 nmvs14 nm
Die Size107 mm²vs132 mm²
Transistors5,400 millionvs3,300 million
Shaders1024vs768
Compute Units16vs6
Core clock2200 MHzvs1290 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs64vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
vs1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce GTX 1050 Ti
TDP107 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date19 Jan 2022vs25 Oct 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    90.08 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    41.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    180.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    61.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    144.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    112.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    5765.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    1981.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Highest Details, Pure hair, HBAO+, DirectX12, Windows 10 x64

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    40
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    19

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    44
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    29

FPS (higher is better)

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Highest detail, Pure Hair On, HBAO+, DirectX 12, Windows 11 x 64

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    64
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    30

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    67
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    38

FPS (higher is better)