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GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 5850

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 comes with a GPU 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 Stream Processors, 40 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 5850, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 725 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 1440(288x5) SPUs along with 72 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 75 Watts
Radeon HD 5850 151 Watts
Difference: 76 Watts (101%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 5850 should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850 128000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 13312 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be a bit (approximately 4%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5850. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5850 52200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 1960 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing 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 5850 23200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 20128 (87%)

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 5850
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2016 September 30, 2009
Code Name GP107-300 Cypress PRO
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 1354 MHz 725 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 151 watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 54160 Mtexels/sec 52200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 43328 Mpixels/sec 23200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 1440(288x5)
Texture Mapping Units 40 72
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3300 million 2154 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out 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 bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to 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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