GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which comes with core clock speeds of 1925 MHz on the GPU, and 2250 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 Texture Address Units and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 260 Watts (347%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 475136 (414%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 1037%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 561840 (1037%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is superior to the GeForce GTX 1050, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 203072 (469%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends 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.