GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 580

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 580, which comes with core clock speeds of 772 MHz on the GPU, and 1002 MHz on the 1536 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 512 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 48 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 580		4956 points
	Difference: 1701 (34%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 580		244 Watts
	Difference: 169 Watts (225%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 580 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 580		192384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 77696 (68%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is just a bit (more or less 10%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4752 (10%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be a bit (more or less 17%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 580, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		37056 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6272 (17%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.