GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 6850

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6850, which has core clock speeds of 775 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 960 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 32 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
Radeon HD 6850		2395 points
	Difference: 5339 (223%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon HD 6850		127 Watts
	Difference: 52 Watts (69%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6850, in theory, should be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850		128000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 13312 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a lot (more or less 66%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6850. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6850		37200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24720 (66%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is superior to the Radeon HD 6850, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6850		24800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16480 (66%)

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: Memory 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. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one 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 the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.