GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 5830

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 5830, which features core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1120(224x5) SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon HD 5830		175 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 5830 should in theory perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5830		128000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 13312 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is a lot (more or less 21%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 5830. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5830		44800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9360 (21%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be quite a bit (approximately 239%) better at AA than the Radeon HD 5830, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5830		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30528 (239%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's 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 rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.