NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

AMD Radeon RX 580X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 88% (2520MHz vs 1340MHz)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5050 +108%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050

VS

Radeon RX 580X

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 50

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

12.90 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

185W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB207

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GB207

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

0 nm

Process Size

14 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.7 billion

Unknown

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

9.1

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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