GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600, which has a core clock frequency of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 208896 (243%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be a lot (about 163%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 109184 (163%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54592 (163%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.