GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 7790

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 7790, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular model. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 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

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		7734 points
Radeon HD 7790		4330 points
	Difference: 3404 (79%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon HD 7790		85 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is 19% faster than the Radeon HD 7790 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7790		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 18688 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a bit (approximately 11%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 7790. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7790		56000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5920 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7790		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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.