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GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 M385X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti comes with a core clock speed of 1290 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 768 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M385X, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M385X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 18688 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a little bit (more or less 1%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 M385X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 320 (1%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a lot (about 135%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M385X, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23680 (135%)

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

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Model	GeForce GTX 1050 Ti	Radeon R9 M385X
Manufacturer	nVidia	AMD
Year	October 2016	2015
Code Name	GP107-400	Bonaire
Memory	4096 MB	4096 MB
Core Speed	1290 MHz	1100 MHz
Memory Speed	7000 MHz	6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP)	75 watts	(Unknown) watts
Bandwidth	114688 MB/sec	96000 MB/sec
Texel Rate	61920 Mtexels/sec	61600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	41280 Mpixels/sec	17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	768	896
Texture Mapping Units	48	56
Render Output Units	32	16
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	128-bit	128-bit
Fab Process	14 nm	28 nm
Transistors	3300 million	(Unknown) million
Bus	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version	DirectX 12.0	DirectX 12
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.5	OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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