GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Geforce GTX 1080 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, which comes with a clock frequency of 1480 MHz and a GDDR5X memory speed of 1376 MHz. It also uses a 352-bit memory bus, and uses a 16 nm design. It features 3584 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, and 88 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should in theory be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 409600 (476%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti will be quite a bit (about 396%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 264704 (396%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, and very much so. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 96832 (290%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.