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GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 4890 1GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti uses a 14 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1290 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 4890 1GB, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 975 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 75 Watts
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 190 Watts
Difference: 115 Watts (153%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 4890 1GB is 9% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 4890 1GB 124800 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 10112 (9%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be much (about 55%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4890 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 61920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 40000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 21920 (55%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is superior to the Radeon HD 4890 1GB, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 25280 (158%)

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 Radeon HD 4890 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2016 Apr 2, 2009
Code Name GP107-400 RV790 XT
Memory 4096 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 1290 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 3900 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 124800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 61920 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 41280 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 768 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 48 40
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 55 nm
Transistors 3300 million 959 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range 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 worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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 bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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