GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 950, which comes with GPU core speed of 1024 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1652 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 768 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 Ti		7734 points
GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
	Difference: 1198 (18%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 950		155 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		138 Sol/s
	Difference: 17 (12%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be 8% faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 8960 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be quite a bit (about 26%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12768 (26%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be much (about 26%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 950, and capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8512 (26%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.