GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 870M

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 870M, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 941 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 1344 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 24 ROPs.

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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

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 870M overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 870M is much (approximately 70%) better at AF 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 is a lot (approximately 83%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 870M, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.