GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 M380

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M380, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1500 MHz on this specific model. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, in theory, should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon R9 M380 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M380		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 18688 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 55%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 M380. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21920 (55%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25280 (158%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at 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 chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.