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GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs GeForce GTX 460

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB has core clock speeds of 1392 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 24 ROPs.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 460, which comes with a core clock frequency of 675 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also features a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 336 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 24 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB 75 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 150 Watts
Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 460 should in theory perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 86400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB 86016 MB/sec
Difference: 384 (0%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is a lot (more or less 77%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB 66816 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 37800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 29016 (77%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB 33408 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 16200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 17208 (106%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1050 3GB GeForce GTX 460
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year May 2018 July 2010
Code Name GP107 GF104
Memory 3072 MB 768 MB
Core Speed 1392 MHz 675 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 3600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 86016 MB/sec 86400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 66816 Mtexels/sec 37800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 33408 Mpixels/sec 16200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 768 336
Texture Mapping Units 48 56
Render Output Units 24 24
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 96-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3300 million 1950 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out 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 card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core 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 rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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