GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 1060

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1060, which features core clock speeds of 1506 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 48 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 1060		12359 points
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		7734 points
	Difference: 4625 (60%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		138 Sol/s
	Difference: 173 (125%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (60%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1060 should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 81920 (71%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a lot (approximately 95%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 58560 (95%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 31008 (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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could 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 Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.