AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

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

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050 +108%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2025

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

2304

Shading Units

2560

144

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GB207

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GB207

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

0 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

232 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

9.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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