GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which has GPU core speed of 889 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also features 2880 Stream Processors, 240 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 249984 (291%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black will be a lot (approximately 219%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 146544 (219%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black will be quite a bit (approximately 28%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9264 (28%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.