GeForce GTX 1050 vs Geforce GTX 670

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 670, which features a clock speed of 915 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1344 SPUs, 112 TAUs, and 32 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 670		7351 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 694 (10%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
Geforce GTX 670		170 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 670 should be 67% faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		192000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 77312 (67%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 670 will be much (about 89%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

Geforce GTX 670		102480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 48320 (89%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the Geforce GTX 670, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 670		29280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14048 (48%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.