GeForce GTX 1050 vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

Compare those specs to the Geforce GTX 690, which comes with a clock frequency of 915 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1502 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1536 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 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 690		13111 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 6454 (97%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 225 Watts (300%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 690 should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 269824 (235%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 is quite a bit (more or less 332%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 180080 (332%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 690 is superior to the GeForce GTX 1050, and very much so. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15232 (35%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.