GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, which uses a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1575 MHz. The GDDR6X memory works at a frequency of 1188 MHz on this specific card. It features 6144 SPUs along with 192 TAUs and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 215 Watts (287%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 536883 (624%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 353%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 235584 (353%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 117792 (353%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.