GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M365X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 925 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1125 MHz on this card. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M365X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 42688 (59%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is much (about 46%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M365X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		37000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17160 (46%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be much (more or less 193%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 M365X, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M365X		14800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28528 (193%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.