GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 390X 8G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 390X 8G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular model. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 R9 390X 8G		13555 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 6898 (104%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon R9 390X 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 200 Watts (267%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 390X 8G is 235% faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		384000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 269312 (235%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390X 8G will be quite a bit (approximately 241%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		184800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 130640 (241%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 390X 8G is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 390X 8G		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23872 (55%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.