GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 380X, which comes with GPU core speed of 970 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1425 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 380X		9519 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 2862 (43%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon R9 380X		190 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (153%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 380X should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 67712 (59%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X is quite a bit (more or less 129%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X		124160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 70000 (129%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the Radeon R9 380X, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12288 (40%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.