GeForce GT 450 (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, which features a core clock speed of 1290 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		106 Watts
	Difference: 31 Watts (41%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be a small bit faster than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 18688 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is much (approximately 227%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42960 (227%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is superior to the GeForce GT 450 (OEM), by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22320 (118%)

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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.