GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 4730

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 4730, which features clock speeds of 700 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640(128x5) SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon HD 4730		140 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (87%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon HD 4730 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4730		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 57088 (99%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be much (about 176%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4730. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4730		22400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39520 (176%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is superior to the Radeon HD 4730, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4730		5600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35680 (637%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 amount of pixels that the graphics chip can 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 Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.