GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 480

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 480, which comes with GPU clock speed of 700 MHz, and 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 924 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 480 Stream Processors, 60 TAUs, 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 480		3650 points
	Difference: 3007 (82%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 480		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 480 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 62720 (55%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is a lot (approximately 29%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12160 (29%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the GeForce GTX 480, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9728 (29%)

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 transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.