GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs Radeon RX 580 XTR

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated387
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data12.04
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code namePolaris 20GP107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)21 May 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2304768
Core clock speed1257 MHz1392 MHz
Boost clock speed1340 MHz1518 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate193.072.86
Floating-point processing powerno data2.332 TFLOPS
ROPs3224
TMUs14448

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length241 mm145 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB3 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz1752 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s84.1 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12.0 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 21 May 2018
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 3 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 185 Watt 75 Watt

RX 580 XTR has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GTX 1050 3 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 146.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 580 XTR and GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 580 XTR
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