GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1605 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5700 XT will be 433% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 372736 (433%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT is much (approximately 284%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 189984 (284%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT will be quite a bit (more or less 207%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 69312 (207%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can 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 ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.