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GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 6790

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 features a clock speed of 1354 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6790, which has core speeds of 840 MHz on the GPU, and 1050 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 800 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units 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 6790 2150 points
Difference: 4507 (210%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 75 Watts
Radeon HD 6790 150 Watts
Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 6790 should theoretically be a small bit better than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6790 134400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 19712 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is much (approximately 61%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6790. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6790 33600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 20560 (61%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be much (approximately 222%) better at AA than the Radeon HD 6790, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6790 13440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 29888 (222%)

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 6790
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2016 April 2011
Code Name GP107-300 Barts LE
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 1354 MHz 840 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 4200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 134400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 54160 Mtexels/sec 33600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 43328 Mpixels/sec 13440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 800
Texture Mapping Units 40 40
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3300 million 1700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1050

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Radeon HD 6790

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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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