GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which features core clock speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 32 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 380 4G		8837 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 2180 (33%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (153%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 380 4G, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 67712 (59%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G is a lot (about 101%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 54480 (101%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is a lot (approximately 40%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 380 4G, and also capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12288 (40%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 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. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.