GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon R9 M380

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M380, which has a clock speed of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050 should theoretically be a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M380 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M380		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 18688 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be quite a bit (more or less 35%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M380. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14160 (35%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be a lot (more or less 171%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M380, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27328 (171%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.