GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 460 2GB, which comes with a core clock speed of 675 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 336 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 2GB		160 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (113%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 460 2GB is 0% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB		115200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 512 (0%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is quite a bit (more or less 64%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 2GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 2GB		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24120 (64%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be quite a bit (about 91%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 460 2GB, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 2GB		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19680 (91%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.