GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, which features a GPU core clock speed of 928 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1350 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 768 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation 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 1050		6657 points
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		3434 points
	Difference: 3223 (94%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1050 should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti should be a little bit (more or less 10%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out 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 also depends on lots of 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.