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GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 7790

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1354 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7790, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 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 HD 7790 4330 points
Difference: 2327 (54%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 75 Watts
Radeon HD 7790 85 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 should perform a bit faster than the Radeon HD 7790 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 114688 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7790 96000 MB/sec
Difference: 18688 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7790 should be a little bit (more or less 3%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon HD 7790 56000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 54160 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 1840 (3%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be much (about 171%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7790, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7790 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 27328 (171%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1050 Radeon HD 7790
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2016 March 2013
Code Name GP107-300 Bonaire XT
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 1354 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 85 watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 96000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 54160 Mtexels/sec 56000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 43328 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 896
Texture Mapping Units 40 56
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 28 nm
Transistors 3300 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range 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 worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 fill rate is also dependant on many 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.

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GeForce GTX 1050

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Radeon HD 7790

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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