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GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB uses a 14 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1392 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 24 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 560, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB 75 Watts
Radeon RX 560 80 Watts
Difference: 5 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 560 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 560 114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB 86016 MB/sec
Difference: 28672 (33%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be a small bit (approximately 13%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 560 75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB 66816 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 8384 (13%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB 33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560 18800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 14608 (78%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Radeon RX 560
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2018 May 2017
Code Name GP107 Baffin
Memory 3072 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1392 MHz 1175 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 86016 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 66816 Mtexels/sec 75200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 33408 Mpixels/sec 18800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 768 1024
Texture Mapping Units 48 64
Render Output Units 24 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 96-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 14 nm
Transistors 3300 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1050 3GB

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