GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, which makes use of a 14 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1290 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		7734 points
GeForce GTX 1050		6657 points
	Difference: 1077 (16%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same memory bandwidth, so theoretically they should perform the same. (explain)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is a bit (approximately 14%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7760 (14%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 will be just a bit (about 5%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2048 (5%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.