GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this particular model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 370 2G should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 93184 (108%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is a bit (about 7%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4416 (7%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2208 (7%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface 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 bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.