GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R5 M330, which has a clock speed of 1030 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 320 SPUs, 20 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB should in theory be much better than the Radeon R5 M330 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 71616 (497%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be a lot (approximately 224%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 46216 (224%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25168 (305%)

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 over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.