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GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 580

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 makes use of a 14 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1354 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 580, which features GPU clock speed of 772 MHz, and 1536 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1002 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 512 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, and 48 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 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

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 580 should in theory be a lot superior to 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 should be a little bit (about 10%) more effective at 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 little bit (approximately 17%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 580, and also able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (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.

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Specifications

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Model	GeForce GTX 1050	GeForce GTX 580
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	October 2016	November 2010
Code Name	GP107-300	GF110
Memory	2048 MB	1536 MB
Core Speed	1354 MHz	772 MHz
Memory Speed	7000 MHz	4008 MHz
Power (Max TDP)	75 watts	244 watts
Bandwidth	114688 MB/sec	192384 MB/sec
Texel Rate	54160 Mtexels/sec	49408 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	43328 Mpixels/sec	37056 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	640	512
Texture Mapping Units	40	64
Render Output Units	32	48
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	128-bit	384-bit
Fab Process	14 nm	40 nm
Transistors	3300 million	3000 million
Bus	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe x16
DirectX Version	DirectX 12.0	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.5	OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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 of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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