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GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 6850

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 features a GPU core speed of 1354 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6850, which features GPU clock speed of 775 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 960 Stream Processors, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 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
Radeon HD 6850 2395 points
Difference: 4262 (178%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 75 Watts
Radeon HD 6850 127 Watts
Difference: 52 Watts (69%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6850, in theory, should perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 128000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 13312 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be a lot (approximately 46%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6850. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6850 37200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 16960 (46%)

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
Radeon HD 6850 24800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 18528 (75%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1050 Radeon HD 6850
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2016 October 2010
Code Name GP107-300 Barts Pro
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 1354 MHz 775 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 127 watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 54160 Mtexels/sec 37200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 43328 Mpixels/sec 24800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 960
Texture Mapping Units 40 48
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3300 million 1700 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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1050

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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