GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 295X2, which comes with clock speeds of 1018 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

Radeon R9 295X2		21205 points
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		7734 points
	Difference: 13471 (174%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 425 Watts (567%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 295X2 should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 525312 (458%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be much (more or less 479%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 296416 (479%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is quite a bit (about 216%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 89024 (216%)

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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.