GeForce GT 340 1GB vs GeForce GTX 1050

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 1050, which makes use of a 14 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1354 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 340 1GB		69 Watts
GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
	Difference: 6 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1050 should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GT 340 1GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 60288 (111%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be much (about 208%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 340 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36560 (208%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the GeForce GT 340 1GB, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38928 (885%)

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 across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.