GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon R9 280X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 280X, which features clock speeds of 850 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1650		75 Watts
Radeon R9 280X		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 280X should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1650 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		288000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1650		131072 MB/sec
	Difference: 156928 (120%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 280X will be quite a bit (approximately 31%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1650. (explain)

Radeon R9 280X		108800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1650		83160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25640 (31%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1650 will be much (more or less 75%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 280X, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		47520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280X		27200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20320 (75%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.