GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 M395X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M395X, which features GPU clock speed of 723 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon R9 M395X		125 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 M395X should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X		160000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 45312 (40%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M395X should be quite a bit (more or less 49%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X		92544 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 30624 (49%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is superior to the Radeon R9 M395X, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M395X		23136 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18144 (78%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the 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 applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.