GeForce GT 450 (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, which comes with clock speeds of 1290 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		106 Watts
	Difference: 31 Watts (41%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should theoretically perform a bit faster than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM) in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		96000 MB/sec
	Difference: 18688 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be much (about 227%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 450 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42960 (227%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is superior to the GeForce GT 450 (OEM), and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 450 (OEM)		18960 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22320 (118%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units 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 a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few 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.