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GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 480

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti uses a 14 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1290 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 480, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 700 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 924 MHz on this specific model. It features 480 SPUs as well as 60 TAUs and 48 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

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

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 480 should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be a lot (more or less 47%) more effective at 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 running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 480, by a large margin. (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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GeForce GTX 480
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year October 2016 March 2010
Code Name GP107-400 GF100
Memory 4096 MB 1536 MB
Core Speed 1290 MHz 700 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 3696 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 250 watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 177408 MB/sec
Texel Rate 61920 Mtexels/sec 42000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 41280 Mpixels/sec 33600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 768 480
Texture Mapping Units 48 60
Render Output Units 32 48
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 384-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3300 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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