GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon RX Vega 64

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 64, which comes with a clock frequency of 1247 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1890 MHz. It also makes use of a 2048-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 4096 SPUs, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 64		295 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (293%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX Vega 64 should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 64		495411 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 409395 (476%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 64 is a lot (about 378%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 64		319232 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 252416 (378%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 64 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 64		79808 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 46400 (139%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few 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.