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GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 4870 1GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 features a GPU clock speed of 1354 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 640 Stream Processors, 40 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 4870 1GB, which features core speeds of 750 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 800(160x5) SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 75 Watts
Radeon HD 4870 1GB 150 Watts
Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 4870 1GB is 0% faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 4870 1GB 115200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 512 (0%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be quite a bit (approximately 81%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4870 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 54160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 1GB 30000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 24160 (81%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be much (about 261%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4870 1GB, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 43328 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 1GB 12000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 31328 (261%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1050 Radeon HD 4870 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2016 Jun 25, 2008
Code Name GP107-300 RV770 XT
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 1354 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 3600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 115200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 54160 Mtexels/sec 30000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 43328 Mpixels/sec 12000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 40 40
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 55 nm
Transistors 3300 million 956 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1050

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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