GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1465 MHz, and 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (140%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5700 is 433% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 372736 (433%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 will be quite a bit (about 216%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 144144 (216%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 should be quite a bit (about 181%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60352 (181%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.