NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1605 MHz vs 1340 MHz
  • Around 11% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2304
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 185 Watt
Launch date 2023 vs 18 April 2017
Boost clock speed 1605 MHz vs 1340 MHz
Pipelines 2560 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt vs 185 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580

  • Around 10% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 1140 MHz
  • Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 128.4 GTexel/s
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • 4.6x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 1140 MHz
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s vs 128.4 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q AMD Radeon RX 580
PassMark - G3D Mark 8827
PassMark - G2D Mark 767
Geekbench - OpenCL 39028
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
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1005

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q AMD Radeon RX 580

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace GCN 4.0
Code name AD107 Polaris 20
Launch date 2023 18 April 2017
Place in performance rating not rated 341
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 1605 MHz 1340 MHz
Core clock speed 1140 MHz 1257 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 128.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.218 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.218 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 2304
Pixel fill rate 51.36 GPixel/s 42.88 GP/s
Texture fill rate 128.4 GTexel/s 192.96 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 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 Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Length 241 mm
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 6 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 168.0 GB/s 256 GB/s
Memory bus width 96 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