GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R7 250X 2GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 250X 2GB, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 640 Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon R7 250X 2GB		95 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (27%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be 59% quicker than the Radeon R7 250X 2GB overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X 2GB		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 42688 (59%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 55%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 250X 2GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X 2GB		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21920 (55%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be quite a bit (about 158%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 250X 2GB, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250X 2GB		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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.