GeForce GT 130 vs GeForce GTX 1050

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 1050, which features core clock speeds of 1354 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 will be 856% faster than the GeForce GT 130 in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 MB/sec
	Difference: 102688 (856%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be quite a bit (approximately 351%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 130. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42160 (351%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 130		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35328 (442%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few 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.