GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon R9 M385X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M385X, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1500 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M385X should be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X		96000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 9984 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB should be just a bit (approximately 8%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M385X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5216 (8%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be much (approximately 90%) more effective at AA than the Radeon R9 M385X, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15808 (90%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. 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 is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.