GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 295X2, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1018 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1250 MHz on this card. It features 2816 SPUs along with 176 Texture Address Units and 64 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

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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 295X2 should perform quite a bit faster 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 should be a lot (more or less 479%) more effective at texture 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%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's 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 processed per second. This number is worked out 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 graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.