GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 M385X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M385X, which comes with core clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050, in theory, should be a little bit faster than the Radeon R9 M385X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 18688 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M385X is a bit (more or less 14%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7440 (14%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be much (approximately 146%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M385X, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M385X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25728 (146%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.