GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, which makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1607 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 2432 SPUs as well as 152 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (140%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 176128 (205%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is much (about 266%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 177448 (266%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is much (more or less 208%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 69440 (208%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated 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 4 instead. 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 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 a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. 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 - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.