GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M330, which features core clock speeds of 1030 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB should be much faster than the Radeon R5 M330 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 71616 (497%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB should be much (approximately 224%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46216 (224%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is superior to the Radeon R5 M330, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25168 (305%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.