GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 7870

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7870, which comes with clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1200 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 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
Radeon HD 7870		6230 points
	Difference: 1504 (24%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7870		172 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		138 Sol/s
	Difference: 34 (25%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon HD 7870		175 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 7870 will be 34% faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870		153600 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 38912 (34%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7870 should be much (more or less 29%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870		80000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18080 (29%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7870		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9280 (29%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core 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 output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.