GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 M275X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M275X, which features core speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. 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

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M275X		50 Watts
GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1050 should theoretically be much better than the Radeon R9 M275X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M275X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 42688 (59%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is quite a bit (approximately 50%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M275X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M275X		36000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18160 (50%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M275X		14400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28928 (201%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels 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 one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.