GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 7790

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 7790, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1500 MHz on this specific model. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 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 HD 7790		4330 points
	Difference: 2327 (54%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon HD 7790		85 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 is 19% faster than the Radeon HD 7790 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7790		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 18688 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7790 is a bit (about 3%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon HD 7790		56000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1840 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7790		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27328 (171%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range 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 calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.