AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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AMD Radeon RX 590 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 590 's Advantages

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

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)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050 +81%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

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GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jan 2025

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1545 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

-

SM Count

20

36

Compute Units

-

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

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

GB207

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

GB207

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

0 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

232 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

175W

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 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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