NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (2520MHz vs 1545MHz)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5050 +81%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 50

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 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

49.44 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

12.90 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

175W

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 30

GB207

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

0 nm

Process Size

12 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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