GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 460 1GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 460 1GB, which comes with core clock speeds of 675 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 336 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 1GB		160 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (113%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 460 1GB should in theory be a little bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 1GB		115200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 512 (0%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be a lot (more or less 64%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 1GB		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24120 (64%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be much (approximately 91%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 460 1GB, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 1GB		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19680 (91%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.