AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

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Radeon RX 580 compared with GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

	AMDRadeon RX 580	NVIDIAGeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Overview
Released
Released	April 2017	October 2016
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	GCN 4	Pascal
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,304 or 2,048	768
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,340 MHz or –	1,392 MHz
Architecture
Architecture	AMD original 8 GB reference baseline uses fourth-generation GCN (Polaris), 36 compute units, 32 ROPs and 144 texture units. Photo shows MSI's factory-overclocked ARMOR 8G OC, not a reference card. Later 2048SP configurations below identify specific Chinese-market Sapphire boards.	Stock-clock GPU figures from MSI's GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4G datasheet, whose card is pictured. First sale on 25 October 2016 is confirmed by GamersNexus launch coverage; the original NVIDIA launch page could not be read.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	14 nm	–
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No hardware ray accelerators	No hardware RT Cores
AI cores
AI cores	–	No Tensor Cores
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	–	No NVIDIA DLSS support
Base clock
Base clock	Original AMD baseline is 1,257 MHz base and 1,340 MHz boost. Pictured MSI ARMOR 8G OC boosts to 1,366 MHz. Sapphire's 2048SP pages state core frequencies of 1,306 MHz (4 GB) and 1,284 MHz (8 GB V2) without a boost label, so numeric boost is omitted for those configurations.	1,290 MHz for the stock specification; PNY's separate OC model is 1,366 MHz base and 1,480 MHz boost
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR5 or 4 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit (better)	128-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s or –	–
Memory detail
Memory detail	Original stock Sapphire Pulse 8 GB SKU 11265-06 has 8,000 MHz effective memory; original stock 4 GB SKU 11265-10 and the named 2048SP boards have 7,000 MHz. AMD publishes 256 GB/s only for the 8 GB baseline; bandwidth is omitted for the others. Sapphire's original 4 GB power is only stated as less than 225 W, so its numeric power remains unpublished.	MSI specifies 7,008 MHz effective GDDR5; no unambiguous maker bandwidth figure was established
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	185 W, – or 150 W	75 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 3.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	Pictured MSI ARMOR has 2 × DisplayPort, 2 × HDMI and dual-link DVI-D. Sapphire 2048SP 4 GB SKU 11265-65-18 has DVI-D only; 8 GB Pulse V2 SKU 11265-70-48 has one HDMI 2.0b, one DisplayPort 1.4 and DVI-D. AMD's reference feature table lists DVI as No; partner outputs vary.	Pictured MSI 4G has DisplayPort 1.4a, HDMI 2.0b and dual-link DVI-D; up to three displays
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	MSI ARMOR specifies 7680 × 4320 and five displays; Sapphire's named 2048SP 4 GB board is limited to 1920 × 1200 at 60 Hz over DVI-D. Its 8 GB V2 board lists DisplayPort 5120 × 2880 at 60 Hz and HDMI 4096 × 2160 at 60 Hz.	7680 × 4320 on MSI's stock-card specification
Power connector
Power connector	One 8-pin on the pictured MSI ARMOR, original Sapphire Pulse and both named 2048SP boards	PNY's stock-clock model takes PCIe slot power; its separate OC model requires one 6-pin. Check the selected partner design.
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	AMD and MSI specify 500 W for the original model; Sapphire specifies 500 W for original Pulse and 450 W for the named 2048SP boards	300 W on MSI's specification; requirements depend on the system
Slot width
Slot width	Original Sapphire Pulse and named 2048SP designs occupy two slots; pictured MSI ARMOR is 38 mm thick	Partner designs vary; PNY lists its stock-clock card as dual-slot
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	Pictured MSI ARMOR is 269 × 125 × 38 mm and 653 g. Original Sapphire Pulse is 230 × 125 × 40 mm; named 2048SP 4 GB is 241 × 120 × 42 mm and 8 GB V2 is 212 × 111 × 40 mm.	No retail Founders Edition; pictured MSI 4G is 177 × 118 × 34 mm and 330 g
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	AMD publishes H.264 and H.265/HEVC encoding and decoding; Sapphire specifies PCIe 3.0 for the named variants	MSI specifies PCIe 3.0 x16 and HDCP 2.2