GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 570, which comes with clock speeds of 1168 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. 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 RX 570		12108 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 5451 (82%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 570 should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 114688 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 should be much (about 176%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 95344 (176%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5952 (16%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out 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 card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.