GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon HD 5750 1GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 5750 1GB, which features a clock speed of 700 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1150 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 720(144x5) SPUs, 36 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Radeon HD 5750 1GB		86 Watts
	Difference: 11 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, in theory, should be a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 5750 1GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5750 1GB		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 12416 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is much (about 165%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 5750 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5750 1GB		25200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 41616 (165%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5750 1GB		11200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22208 (198%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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