GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 460

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 460, which has a clock frequency of 675 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 336 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 24 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 460		2557 points
	Difference: 4100 (160%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 should be 33% faster than the GeForce GTX 460 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 28288 (33%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be much (about 43%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16360 (43%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27128 (167%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount 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 clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.