GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 390 8G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 390 8G, which has a core clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 512-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 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

Radeon R9 390 8G		12733 points
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		7734 points
	Difference: 4999 (65%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 390 8G		326 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		138 Sol/s
	Difference: 188 (136%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon R9 390 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (267%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 390 8G should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		384000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 269312 (235%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390 8G is a lot (approximately 158%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		160000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 98080 (158%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 390 8G is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		64000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22720 (55%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.