GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 4730

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 4730, which features clock speeds of 700 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640(128x5) SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
Radeon HD 4730		140 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (87%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, in theory, should be a lot faster than the Radeon HD 4730 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4730		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 57088 (99%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a lot (more or less 176%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4730. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4730		22400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39520 (176%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is superior to the Radeon HD 4730, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4730		5600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35680 (637%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.