GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 M375X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M375X, which comes with clock speeds of 1015 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1050 should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M375X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M375X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 42688 (59%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be a lot (more or less 33%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M375X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M375X		40600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13560 (33%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be a lot (more or less 167%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M375X, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M375X		16240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27088 (167%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.