GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 650

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 650, which has GPU clock speed of 1058 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1250 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 Stream Processors, 32 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 650		2263 points
	Difference: 5471 (242%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650		64 Watts
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
	Difference: 11 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is 43% quicker than the GeForce GTX 650 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650		80000 MB/sec
	Difference: 34688 (43%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 83%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 650. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		33856 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28064 (83%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		16928 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24352 (144%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure 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 card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.