GeForce GTX 1050 Laptop vs Radeon RX 590
On raw speed the Radeon RX 590 comes out dramatically faster — about 40% ahead of the GeForce GTX 1050 Laptop.
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Radeon RX 590 vs GeForce GTX 1050 Laptop: In-Depth Breakdown
Performance: Radeon RX 590 vs GeForce GTX 1050 Laptop
The Radeon RX 590 is dramatically faster, around 40% ahead of the GeForce GTX 1050 Laptop. Both cards sit in the same broad class, well suited to entry-level 1080p.
Power & Efficiency
At 53W against 225W, the GeForce GTX 1050 Laptop is both the lower-power and the more efficient card, making it the easier build to cool and power.
VRAM & Future-Proofing
The Radeon RX 590 carries 8GB versus 4GB on the GeForce GTX 1050 Laptop. The extra 4GB helps at 4K, with high-resolution texture packs, and for content-creation or local-AI workloads that exhaust smaller buffers.
Features & Ecosystem
Beyond raw numbers, the GeForce GTX 1050 Laptop brings NVIDIA DLSS upscaling/frame generation and stronger ray tracing, while the Radeon RX 590 offers AMD FSR upscaling and strong rasterization value. If you lean on upscaling or ray tracing, that ecosystem difference can matter as much as the frame-rate gap.
Which should you buy: GeForce GTX 1050 Laptop or Radeon RX 590?
The Radeon RX 590 is the faster card by about 40%. Since one of these is a laptop GPU, its listed price covers the whole system rather than just the chip, so it isn't directly comparable — base your decision on the spec differences above.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Technical Specifications Comparison
Architecture & Cores
| Specification | GeForce GTX 1050 Laptop | Radeon RX 590 |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Pascal | GCN 4.0 (Polaris) |
| Process Node | Samsung 14nm | GloFo 12nm |
| CUDA Cores (CUDA Cores / Stream Processors) | 640 | 2,304✓ |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 0 | — |
| Tensor / AI Cores | 0 | — |
Clock Speeds
| Specification | GeForce GTX 1050 Laptop | Radeon RX 590 |
|---|---|---|
| Base Clock | 1,354 MHz | 1,469 MHz✓ |
| Boost Clock | 1,493 MHz | 1,545 MHz✓ |
Memory
| Specification | GeForce GTX 1050 Laptop | Radeon RX 590 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM Capacity | 4 GB | 8 GB✓ |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 128-bit | 256-bit✓ |
| Memory Speed | 7 Gbps | 8 Gbps✓ |
| Bandwidth | 112 GB/s | 256 GB/s✓ |
Connectivity & Power
| Specification | GeForce GTX 1050 Laptop | Radeon RX 590 |
|---|---|---|
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TDP | 53 W✓ | 225 W |
| Power Connectors | None | 1x 8-pin |
| Released | Jan 2017 | Nov 2018 |