NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 570 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q and AMD Radeon RX 570 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 150 Watt
Launch date 17 Dec 2021 vs 18 April 2017
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 570 (Laptop)

  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 926-1168 MHz vs 832 MHz
  • Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 1206-1244 MHz vs 1155 MHz
  • 2.2x more texture fill rate: 159.23 GTexel/s vs 73.92 GTexel/s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • 4.7x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 926-1168 MHz vs 832 MHz
Boost clock speed 1206-1244 MHz vs 1155 MHz
Texture fill rate 159.23 GTexel/s vs 73.92 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q AMD Radeon RX 570 (Laptop)

Essentials

Architecture Ampere GCN 4.0
Code name GA107 Ellesmere
Launch date 17 Dec 2021 18 April 2017
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP) $599.99
Price now $149.99
Type Desktop, Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 59.00

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1155 MHz 1206-1244 MHz
Core clock speed 832 MHz 926-1168 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 147.8 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.462 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.731 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2048 2048
Pixel fill rate 36.96 GPixel/s 39.81 GP/s
Texture fill rate 73.92 GTexel/s 159.23 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt 150 Watt
Floating-point performance 5.1 TFLOPs
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2048
Texture Units 128
Transistor count 5,700 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height 35 mm, 1.4 inches
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 MXM-B (3.0)
Length 229 mm, 9 inches
Supplementary power connectors None
Width 113 mm, 4.4 inches
Bridgeless CrossFire
Laptop size large
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 96.00 GB/s 224 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective 7000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
CrossFire
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0b
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)