In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon X1050 are significantly better than the Nvidia GeForce FX 5600 XT.

The Radeon X1050 was released over three years more recently than the FX 5600 XT, and so the Radeon X1050 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the FX 5600 XT when running the latest games.

Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.

The Radeon X1050 and the GeForce FX 5600 XT have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.

The Radeon X1050 has 2.1 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the FX 5600 XT, which means that the memory performance of the Radeon X1050 is marginally better than the FX 5600 XT.

Both the Radeon X1050 and the GeForce FX 5600 XT have 4 Shader Processing Units. The two GPUs are based on different architectures, but deliver an equivalent shader performance. To compare, we must continue to look at the memory bandwidth, Texture and Pixel Rates. In this case, we sadly do not have enough data in this area to complete the comparison.

The Radeon X1050 requires 24 Watts to run but there is no entry for the GeForce FX 5600 XT. We would recommend a PSU with at least 300 Watts for the Radeon X1050.