GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500, which has a clock speed of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5500 should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 114688 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is a lot (about 171%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 92800 (171%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is a lot (more or less 23%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1050, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10112 (23%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.