GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon R9 M280X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M280X, which has core clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M280X, in theory, should perform a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X		88000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 1984 (2%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is much (approximately 33%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 M280X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M280X		50400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16416 (33%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is superior to the Radeon R9 M280X, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M280X		14400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19008 (132%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.