GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 560, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 560 should be 33% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 28672 (33%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be a bit (about 13%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8384 (13%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB should be a lot (approximately 78%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon RX 560, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14608 (78%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour 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 rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.