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GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 4790

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti makes use of a 14 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1290 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 4790, which has a clock speed of 600 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 800 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 55 nm design. It features 640(128x5) SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, in theory, should be a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 4790 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 114688 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4790 102400 MB/sec
Difference: 12288 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is quite a bit (approximately 223%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4790. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 61920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4790 19200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 42720 (223%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is much (about 330%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon HD 4790, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4790 9600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 31680 (330%)

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 4790
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2016 2009
Code Name GP107-400 RV790
Memory 4096 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 1290 MHz 600 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 3200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 102400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 61920 Mtexels/sec 19200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 41280 Mpixels/sec 9600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 768 640(128x5)
Texture Mapping Units 48 32
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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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