GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 7870

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 7870, which features GPU core speed of 1000 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1200 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1280 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, 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		6230 points
	Difference: 1504 (24%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7870		172 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		138 Sol/s
	Difference: 34 (25%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon HD 7870		175 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 7870 should be 34% faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870		153600 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 38912 (34%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7870 should be quite a bit (approximately 29%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870		80000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18080 (29%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be much (more or less 29%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon HD 7870, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7870		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9280 (29%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.