GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5700, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1465 MHz, and 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 Stream Processors, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (140%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 344064 (300%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 is quite a bit (about 290%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 156800 (290%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 should be a lot (approximately 116%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 1050, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 50432 (116%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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