GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon R9 M380

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M380, which features core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is 19% faster than the Radeon R9 M380 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be quite a bit (about 55%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 M380. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21920 (55%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be much (approximately 158%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M380, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M380		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25280 (158%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour 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 rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.