GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500, which comes with core clock speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5500 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 114688 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be much (approximately 137%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 85040 (137%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12160 (29%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.