GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M265, which comes with clock speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
	Difference: 3401 (104%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1050 should be 258% quicker than the Radeon R7 M265 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 82688 (258%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is much (more or less 211%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36760 (211%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the Radeon R7 M265, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37528 (647%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.