GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which comes with a core clock frequency of 822 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1002 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 384 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

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 560 Ti		3466 points
	Difference: 3191 (92%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be 12% faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 13568 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be just a bit (about 3%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1552 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17024 (65%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.