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GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs GeForce GTX 280

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB has core clock speeds of 1392 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 24 ROPs.

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 280, which has a core clock frequency of 602 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 1107 MHz. It also features a 512-bit bus, and uses a 65 nm design. It features 240 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB 75 Watts
GeForce GTX 280 236 Watts
Difference: 161 Watts (215%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 280 should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 280 141696 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB 86016 MB/sec
Difference: 55680 (65%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be a lot (more or less 39%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 280. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB 66816 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 280 48160 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 18656 (39%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB 33408 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 280 19264 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 14144 (73%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1050 3GB GeForce GTX 280
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year May 2018 June 17, 2008
Code Name GP107 G200
Memory 3072 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 1392 MHz 602 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 2214 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 236 watts
Bandwidth 86016 MB/sec 141696 MB/sec
Texel Rate 66816 Mtexels/sec 48160 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 33408 Mpixels/sec 19264 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 768 240
Texture Mapping Units 48 80
Render Output Units 24 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR3
Bus Width 96-bit 512-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 65 nm
Transistors 3300 million 1400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe x16 2.0
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 10
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 3.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per 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. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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