AMD Radeon RX 580 vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon RX 580, vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon RX 580 and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
76
38
33
15
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
The Witcher 3
52
40
23
13
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Counter-Strike 2
78
56
37
16
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Far Cry 6
58
49
34
17
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Hogwarts Legacy
33
23
20
10
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
COD Modern Warfare 3
47
41
27
15
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Ghost of Tsushima
33
24
16
9
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Cyberpunk 2077
30
27
13
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
60
51
31
18
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Avg FPS
1080p High52n/a
1080p Ultra39n/a
1440p Ultra26n/a
4K Ultra13n/a
DeviationLown/a

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon RX 580
4176
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
n/a
Time Spy4353n/a
Port Royal527n/a
Fire Strike14979n/a
Night Raid56876n/a
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon RX 580
40514
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
n/a
Background Blur59.5 frames/sn/a
Face Detection33.8 frames/sn/a
Horizon Detection1.56 Gpix/secn/a
Edge Detection3.1 Gpix/secn/a
Gaussian Blur2.92 Gpix/secn/a
Feature Matching0.33 Gpix/secn/a
Stereo Matching161.8 Gpix/secn/a
Particle Physics5395.1 fpsn/a
APIOpenCLn/a
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
AMD Radeon RX 580
8831
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
n/a
G2D Mark767n/a
DirectX 1160 fpsn/a
DirectX 1243 fpsn/a
GPU Compute3529 Ops/sn/a

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender GPU
AMD Radeon RX 580
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
2993.16

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Announced April, 18, 2017 June, 24, 2025
Form Factor PC use Laptop use
Use case Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture GCN 4.0 Blackwell 2.0
Codename Polaris 20 GB207
Price 229 n/a

GPU

GPU Frequency 1257 MHz 2235-2520 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 1340 MHz 1500-2662 MHz
Shader Units 2304 2560
TMUs 144 80
ROPs 32 32
Execution Units n/a 20
Ray Tracing Cores No 20
Tensor Cores No 80
L1 cache 16 KB/core 128 KB/core
L2 cache 2000 KB/core 32000 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 43 Gpix/sec 48-85 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 193 GTex/s 120-213 GTex/s
FLOPS 6.2 TFLOPS 7.7-13.6 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 IGP
TGP 185 W 35-100 W
Process GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process tech. 14 nm 5 nm
Transistor Size 232 mm² n/a
Transistor count 5 billion n/a
Transistor density 21.55 MTr/mm² n/a

Memory

Interface GDDR5 GDDR7
Memory Frequency 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Bus 256 bit 128 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 8000 MB/s 24000 MB/s
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon RX 580
256 GB/s
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
384 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA n/a 12.0
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No DLSS 4

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop the clear winner in this comparison.

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