GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 590

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 590, which comes with a clock speed of 607 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 855 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 512 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 48 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 590		6680 points
	Difference: 1054 (16%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 290 Watts (387%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 590 is 186% faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 213632 (186%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 should be a lot (approximately 25%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15776 (25%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 590 is superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16992 (41%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends 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.