GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which comes with core clock speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 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 380 4G		8837 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 2180 (33%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (153%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 380 4G should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 67712 (59%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G is much (approximately 101%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 54480 (101%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12288 (40%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.