GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with core speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 225 Watts (300%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 409436 (476%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be much (more or less 430%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 286976 (430%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be a lot (about 165%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 55040 (165%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core 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 processed per 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 figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends 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 maximum fill rate.