GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 5850

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 5850, which features a clock speed of 725 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 1440(288x5) SPUs, 72 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon HD 5850		151 Watts
	Difference: 76 Watts (101%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 5850 should in theory be a little bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850		128000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 13312 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a bit (approximately 19%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 5850. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5850		52200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9720 (19%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5850		23200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18080 (78%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen 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 the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to 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 get to the maximum fill rate.