GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 Nano

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 Nano, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The HBM RAM is set to run at a speed of 500 MHz on this model. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 Texture Address Units and 64 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 Nano		14918 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 8261 (124%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 Nano should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 397312 (346%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano is much (about 373%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 201840 (373%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano should be a lot (more or less 48%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 1050, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20672 (48%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.