GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 295X2, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1018 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2816 Stream Processors, 176 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 425 Watts (567%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 295X2 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 553984 (644%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is much (approximately 436%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 291520 (436%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be quite a bit (approximately 290%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 96896 (290%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.