GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 390 8G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 390 8G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this particular model. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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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 much superior to 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 should be quite a bit (approximately 158%) more effective at AF 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

The Radeon R9 390 8G should be much (more or less 55%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.