GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 6850

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6850, which comes with a core clock frequency of 775 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 960 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
Radeon HD 6850		2395 points
	Difference: 4262 (178%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon HD 6850		127 Watts
	Difference: 52 Watts (69%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6850, in theory, should perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850		128000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 13312 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is much (approximately 46%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 6850. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6850		37200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16960 (46%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be quite a bit (about 75%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6850, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6850		24800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18528 (75%)

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 transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.