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GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 3850 X2

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 uses a 14 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1354 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 3850 X2, which makes use of a 55 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 668 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 828 MHz on this card. It features 320(64x5) SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1050 should in theory be a little bit better than the Radeon HD 3850 X2 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 114688 MB/sec
Radeon HD 3850 X2 105984 MB/sec
Difference: 8704 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be much (about 153%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 3850 X2. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 X2 21376 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 32784 (153%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 X2 21376 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 21952 (103%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1050 Radeon HD 3850 X2
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2016 Apr 4, 2008
Code Name GP107-300 RV670 PRO
Memory 2048 MB 512 MB (x2)
Core Speed 1354 MHz 668 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 1656 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 105984 MB/sec
Texel Rate 54160 Mtexels/sec 21376 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 43328 Mpixels/sec 21376 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 320(64x5) (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 40 16 (x2)
Render Output Units 32 16 (x2)
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit (x2)
Fab Process 14 nm 55 nm
Transistors 3300 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16/(internal PCIe 1.1 x16)
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1050

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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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