GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M265, which features GPU core speed of 725 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 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

GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
Radeon R7 M265		3256 points
	Difference: 3401 (104%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050 should in theory be much faster than the Radeon R7 M265 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 82688 (258%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be quite a bit (more or less 211%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36760 (211%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37528 (647%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.