GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Intro

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

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1050 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti in general. (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 (approximately 10%) better at texture 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 a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, by a large margin. (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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at 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 the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.