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GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 uses a 14 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1354 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm, which comes with a clock frequency of 576 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 999 MHz. It also features a 448-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 55 nm design. It is made up of 216 SPUs, 72 TAUs, and 28 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 75 Watts
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm 171 Watts
Difference: 96 Watts (128%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1050 should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm 111888 MB/sec
Difference: 2800 (3%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be much (more or less 31%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 54160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm 41472 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12688 (31%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm 16128 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 27200 (169%)

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 GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year October 2016 December 22, 2008
Code Name GP107-300 G200b
Memory 2048 MB 896 MB
Core Speed 1354 MHz 576 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 1998 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 171 watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 111888 MB/sec
Texel Rate 54160 Mtexels/sec 41472 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 43328 Mpixels/sec 16128 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 216
Texture Mapping Units 40 72
Render Output Units 32 28
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 448-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 55 nm
Transistors 3300 million 1400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe x16 2.0
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 10
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel 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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