GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which comes with a clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a HBM memory frequency of 500 MHz. It also features a 4096-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 4096 SPUs, 256 TAUs, 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 R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (267%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 Fury X should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 425984 (495%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X should be much (more or less 302%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 201984 (302%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X will be a lot (about 101%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33792 (101%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.