GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which comes with clock speeds of 825 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M260X overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 22016 (34%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be quite a bit (approximately 237%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 47016 (237%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB should be quite a bit (more or less 406%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 M260X, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26808 (406%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.