GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 7870 XT, which comes with GPU core speed of 925 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1500 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1536 SPUs, 96 TAUs, and 32 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
Radeon HD 7870 XT		6390 points
	Difference: 1344 (21%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon HD 7870 XT		185 Watts
	Difference: 110 Watts (147%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 7870 XT should theoretically perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT		192000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 77312 (67%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7870 XT will be a lot (approximately 43%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT		88800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26880 (43%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT		29600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11680 (39%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.