GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 7870 XT, which features core clock speeds of 925 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 96 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator 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 should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall. (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 should be much (approximately 43%) faster with regards to anisotropic 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 much (approximately 39%) better at AA than the Radeon HD 7870 XT, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.