GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 6790

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6790, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 840 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1050 MHz on this particular card. It features 800 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator 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 6790		2150 points
	Difference: 5584 (260%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon HD 6790		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6790 will be 17% faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 6790		134400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 19712 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is much (about 84%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6790. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6790		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28320 (84%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is superior to the Radeon HD 6790, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6790		13440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27840 (207%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen 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 by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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