GeForce GTX 1050 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Nvidia Titan X, which features a core clock speed of 1417 MHz and a GDDR5X memory frequency of 1251 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit memory bus, and uses a 16 nm design. It is made up of 3584 SPUs, 224 TAUs, and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Nvidia Titan X should theoretically be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 376832 (329%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be quite a bit (more or less 486%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 263248 (486%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is a lot (more or less 214%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 1050, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 92704 (214%)

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 across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel 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 maximum fill rate.