GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 780 Ti, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 875 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 2880 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator 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 780 Ti		10900 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 4243 (64%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 780 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti is 193% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 221312 (193%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti is a lot (approximately 288%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		210000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 155840 (288%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be just a bit (more or less 3%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 780 Ti, and will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 780 Ti		42000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1328 (3%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.