GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 460

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 460, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 675 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 900 MHz on this card. It features 336 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 24 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 460		2557 points
	Difference: 5177 (202%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be 33% quicker than the GeForce GTX 460 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 28288 (33%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is quite a bit (approximately 64%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24120 (64%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 155%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 460, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25080 (155%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of 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 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 the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.