GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 7850

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7850, which has a clock speed of 860 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1200 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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 7850		5200 points
	Difference: 1457 (28%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon HD 7850		130 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (73%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 7850 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 1050 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7850		153600 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 38912 (34%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7850 should be a bit (approximately 2%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon HD 7850		55040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 880 (2%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be quite a bit (about 57%) more effective at AA than the Radeon HD 7850, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		27520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15808 (57%)

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 max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.