GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 580, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1257 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 2000 MHz on this specific model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 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 580		13630 points
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		7734 points
	Difference: 5896 (76%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 580		315 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		138 Sol/s
	Difference: 177 (128%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
	Difference: 110 Watts (147%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 580 will be 129% faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 147456 (129%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 is much (approximately 192%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 119088 (192%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be a bit (more or less 3%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 580, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1056 (3%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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