GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 870M

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 870M, which comes with a clock speed of 941 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1344 SPUs, 112 TAUs, and 24 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 Ti		7734 points
GeForce GTX 870M		4770 points
	Difference: 2964 (62%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 870M		110 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is 19% quicker than the GeForce GTX 870M in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 870M		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 18688 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 870M will be much (more or less 70%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 870M		105392 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 43472 (70%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be much (more or less 83%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 870M, and able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 870M		22584 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18696 (83%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.