GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which uses a 5 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1855 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 2500 MHz on this card. It features 6144 SPUs along with 384 TAUs and 192 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		983040 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 868352 (757%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX will be a lot (about 1215%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		712320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 658160 (1215%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		356160 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 312832 (722%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.