GeForce GT 130 vs GeForce GTX 1050 3GB

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, which uses a 14 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1392 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 130 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 MB/sec
	Difference: 74016 (617%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be much (more or less 457%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 130. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 54816 (457%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 130		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25408 (318%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.