GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 928 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1350 MHz on this particular card. It features 768 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		110 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1050 should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 28288 (33%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB will be a little bit (approximately 10%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		59392 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5232 (10%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		14848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28480 (192%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.