GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 860M

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 860M, which comes with a core clock speed of 797 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1152 SPUs, 96 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
GeForce GTX 860M		4340 points
	Difference: 2317 (53%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 860M		45 Watts
GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 860M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 50688 (79%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 860M should be much (approximately 41%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

GeForce GTX 860M		76512 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22352 (41%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is superior to the GeForce GTX 860M, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 860M		12752 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30576 (240%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.