GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 470, which has a clock frequency of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1650 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 2048 SPUs, 128 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

Radeon RX 470		11756 points
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		7734 points
	Difference: 4022 (52%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 470		289 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		138 Sol/s
	Difference: 151 (109%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (60%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 470 should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 96512 (84%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is quite a bit (about 91%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56608 (91%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 470, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11648 (39%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.