GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 5970

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5970, which features GPU clock speed of 725 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1600 Stream Processors, 160 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon HD 5970		294 Watts
	Difference: 219 Watts (292%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 5970 is 123% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 5970		256000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 141312 (123%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5970 will be much (approximately 275%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon HD 5970		232000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 170080 (275%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5970 is superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 5970		92800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 51520 (125%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, 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 number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.