NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 580 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

AMD Radeon RX 580

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

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
6.2x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 185 Watt
Around 10% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 43513 vs 39544

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 Dec 2021 vs 18 April 2017
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 185 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	43513 vs 39544

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580

Around 71% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 735 MHz
Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 1340 MHz vs 1245 MHz
2.4x more texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 79.68 GTexel/s
Around 13% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 2048
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
4.6x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 767 vs 478
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8842 vs 7754
4x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1005 vs 253

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1257 MHz vs 735 MHz
Boost clock speed	1340 MHz vs 1245 MHz
Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s vs 79.68 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2304 vs 2048
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	767 vs 478
PassMark - G3D Mark	8842 vs 7754
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1005 vs 253

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

478

767

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7754

8842

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

43513

39544

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

253

1005

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	AMD Radeon RX 580
PassMark - G2D Mark	478	767
PassMark - G3D Mark	7754	8842
Geekbench - OpenCL	43513	39544
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	253	1005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		116.142
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1022.932
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		9.235
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		84.034
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		607.721
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11281
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3349

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile	AMD Radeon RX 580
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 4.0
Code name	GA107	Polaris 20
Launch date	17 Dec 2021	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	343	345
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$229
Price now		$169.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		76.21
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1245 MHz	1340 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	159.4 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.20 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.100 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	2304
Pixel fill rate	39.84 GPixel/s	42.88 GP/s
Texture fill rate	79.68 GTexel/s	192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	185 Watt
Compute units		36
Floating-point performance		6.2 TFLOPs
Render output units		32
Stream Processors		2304
Texture Units		144
Transistor count		5,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	35 mm, 1.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm, 9 inches	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 8-pin
Width	113 mm, 4.4 inches
Bridgeless CrossFire
Recommended system power (PSU)		500 Watt
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB/s	256 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	8000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready