GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon R9 M380

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M380, which features core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M380 should in theory perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M380		96000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 9984 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be a lot (about 67%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M380. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26816 (67%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be a lot (more or less 109%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M380, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17408 (109%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at 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 card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many 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.