GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon R7 250

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 250, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1150 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250		65 Watts
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon R7 250 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 12416 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB should be much (approximately 178%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 250. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42816 (178%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is superior to the Radeon R7 250, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25408 (318%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.