GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, which has GPU core speed of 1680 MHz, and 8096 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2560 Stream Processors, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (213%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 344064 (300%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is much (about 396%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 214640 (396%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is superior to the GeForce GTX 1050, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 64192 (148%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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