GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX Titan, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 837 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1502 MHz on this specific model. It features 2688 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 202368 (235%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is quite a bit (approximately 181%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 120672 (181%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6768 (20%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.