GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 470, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1650 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 470		11756 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 5099 (77%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (60%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 470 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 96512 (84%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 will be a lot (about 119%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 64368 (119%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be quite a bit (about 46%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon RX 470, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13696 (46%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.