GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1605 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5700 XT should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT is quite a bit (approximately 315%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 194880 (315%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 61440 (149%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 in a second.

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