GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, which features a clock speed of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 384-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2816 SPUs, 176 Texture Address Units, and 96 ROPs.

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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 980 Ti		17120 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 10463 (157%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti should be 193% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1050 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 221312 (193%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be much (approximately 225%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 121840 (225%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 52672 (122%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.