GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon R9 M295X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M295X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 750 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1375 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Radeon R9 M295X		125 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 M295X should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		176000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 89984 (105%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X will be much (more or less 44%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		96000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29184 (44%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be a lot (approximately 39%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M295X, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M295X		24000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9408 (39%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one 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 higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied 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 figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.