GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 7970

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7970, which has clock speeds of 925 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units 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

Radeon HD 7970		8225 points
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		7734 points
	Difference: 491 (6%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon HD 7970		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 7970 should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7970		264000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 149312 (130%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7970 is quite a bit (more or less 91%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon HD 7970		118400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56480 (91%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is much (more or less 39%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon HD 7970, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7970		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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.