GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 280X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 850 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 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 280X		8886 points
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		7734 points
	Difference: 1152 (15%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 280X		294 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		138 Sol/s
	Difference: 156 (113%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon R9 280X		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 280X should be 151% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 173312 (151%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280X should be a lot (more or less 76%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46880 (76%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be a lot (approximately 52%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R9 280X, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14080 (52%)

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 max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.