GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon HD 5850

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5850, which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 725 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 1440(288x5) SPUs as well as 72 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1650		75 Watts
Radeon HD 5850		151 Watts
	Difference: 76 Watts (101%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1650 should theoretically perform a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 5850 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		131072 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5850		128000 MB/sec
	Difference: 3072 (2%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1650 is quite a bit (more or less 59%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 5850. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		83160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5850		52200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 30960 (59%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1650 is much (about 105%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 5850, and also able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		47520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5850		23200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24320 (105%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.