GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 7870 XT, which features a clock frequency of 925 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1536 SPUs, 96 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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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
Radeon HD 7870 XT		6390 points
	Difference: 1344 (21%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon HD 7870 XT		185 Watts
	Difference: 110 Watts (147%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 7870 XT, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT		192000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 77312 (67%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7870 XT is quite a bit (approximately 43%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT		88800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26880 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be a lot (more or less 39%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 7870 XT, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT		29600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11680 (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.