GeForce GTX 1050 vs Geforce GTX 780

Intro

Compare that to the Geforce GTX 780, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 863 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1502 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 192 Texture Address Units 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		10082 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 3425 (51%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 780 should theoretically be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 173696 (151%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 780 should be quite a bit (about 206%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Geforce GTX 780		165696 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 111536 (206%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be a bit (about 5%) faster with regards to AA than the Geforce GTX 780, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 780		41424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1904 (5%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.