GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon R9 M280X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M280X, which has clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 M280X is 2% faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X		88000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 1984 (2%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB should be a lot (more or less 33%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M280X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M280X		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16416 (33%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be quite a bit (approximately 132%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M280X, and capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M280X		14400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19008 (132%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of 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.