GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon RX 6650 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6650 XT, which comes with a core clock speed of 2055 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2190 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It features 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, 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 6650 XT		176 Watts
	Difference: 101 Watts (135%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 6650 XT should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT		287072 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 172384 (150%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6650 XT should be much (more or less 386%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT		263040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 208880 (386%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6650 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT		131520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 88192 (204%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It 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 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's 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 rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.