GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1855 MHz, and 24576 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 2500 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is comprised of 6144 Stream Processors, 384 TAUs, and 192 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Radeon RX 7900 XTX		355 Watts
	Difference: 280 Watts (373%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		983040 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 897024 (1043%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX is quite a bit (more or less 966%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		712320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 645504 (966%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX will be a lot (approximately 966%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		356160 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 322752 (966%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.