GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 480

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 480, which has a clock speed of 700 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 924 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 480 SPUs, 60 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 480		3650 points
	Difference: 4084 (112%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 480		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 480 will be 55% faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 62720 (55%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is much (more or less 47%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19920 (47%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 480, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7680 (23%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its 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 core clock speed. 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.