NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 560 14CU 4GB GDDR5 (AXRX 560 4GBD5-DHA)

The maximum theoretical pixel fillrate is dependent on the number of Raster Operations Pipelines (ROPs) and graphics frequency. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a massive advantage here, as it runs at higher rate and has twice as many ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines). Better pixel fill rate allows more pixels to be drawn on screen per second, which results in increased graphics card performance, unless the GPU is limited by something else, such as memory bandwidth or texture mapping.

Another important parameter, that influences overall graphics card performance, is texture fillrate. This parameter is defined as the number of TMUs, multiplied by graphics clock speed. Although the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has fewer Texture Mapping Units (TMUs), it is clocked higher, as a result it has insignificantly higher texture fillrate. Having better texture fill rate allows the GPU to map more textures and/or utilize more complex 3D effects for each textured picture element, which improves visual appearance of games and generated images.

Maximum Single Precision performance indicates how fast the card is at running applications, that make an extensive use of single-precision floating point numbers. The performance is measured in GFLOPS, which stands for Giga (billions of) Floating Point Operations Per Second. All single-precision calculations are performed by stream processors or CUDA cores, thus the more cores / processors the graphics card has the better. Performance also depends on the processor clock rate. The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics card is a bit faster here. Higher single-precision performance number means the GPU will perform better in general computing applications. Since stream processors or CUDA cores are also used as vertex and geometry shaders for 3D image generation, higher performance is also beneficial to games.

Memory bandwidth parameter tells how much memory (in Gigabytes) the graphics unit can read from or write to dedicated memory per second. Cards with higher memory bandwidth have better performance at high display resolutions, or when using large and detailed textures, and/or utilizing complex 3D effects and filters, like anti-aliasing. Memory type, speed, and memory interface width all affect the bandwidth value. Specifically, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti offers higher memory clock. As a consequence, it has more memory bandwidth.