GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 950M

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 950M, which has a GPU core clock speed of 914 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 640 Stream Processors, 40 TAUs, and 16 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 Ti		7734 points
GeForce GTX 950M		3330 points
	Difference: 4404 (132%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950M		55 Watts
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 950M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 82688 (258%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is much (more or less 69%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 950M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		36560 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25360 (69%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be much (about 182%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 950M, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950M		14624 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26656 (182%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.