GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX Titan, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 837 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1502 MHz on this specific card. It features 2688 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 202368 (235%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan will be much (approximately 181%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 120672 (181%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan will be a small bit (more or less 20%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, and will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6768 (20%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 number of 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 better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.