GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 650

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 650, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1058 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1250 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 384 Stream Processors, 32 Texture Address Units, 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		2263 points
	Difference: 4394 (194%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650		64 Watts
GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
	Difference: 11 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1050 should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 650 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650		80000 MB/sec
	Difference: 34688 (43%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be quite a bit (about 60%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 650. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		33856 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20304 (60%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		16928 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26400 (156%)

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 transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.