GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which features clock speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 64 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 Vega 56		21011 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 14354 (216%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 135 Watts (180%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 304742 (266%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be much (more or less 378%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 204784 (378%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30656 (71%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.