GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 7790

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 7790, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1500 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 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 7790		4330 points
	Difference: 2327 (54%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Radeon HD 7790		85 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050 should in theory be a bit faster than the Radeon HD 7790 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7790		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 18688 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7790 will be a small bit (more or less 3%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Radeon HD 7790		56000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1840 (3%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be a lot (more or less 171%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7790, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7790		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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.