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GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti makes use of a 14 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1290 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216, which features GPU core speed of 576 MHz, and 896 MB of GDDR3 RAM set to run at 999 MHz through a 448-bit bus. It also features 216 SPUs, 72 Texture Address Units, and 28 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 75 Watts
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 202 Watts
Difference: 127 Watts (169%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be 3% faster than the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 111888 MB/sec
Difference: 2800 (3%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be much (approximately 49%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 41472 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 20448 (49%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 16128 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 25152 (156%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year October 2016 September 16, 2008
Code Name GP107-400 G200
Memory 4096 MB 896 MB
Core Speed 1290 MHz 576 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 1998 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 202 watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 111888 MB/sec
Texel Rate 61920 Mtexels/sec 41472 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 41280 Mpixels/sec 16128 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 768 216
Texture Mapping Units 48 72
Render Output Units 32 28
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 448-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 65 nm
Transistors 3300 million 1400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe x16 2.0
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 10
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 are applied in one 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 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 amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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