Need help understanding Mhz clock speeds on GPU's
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Clock speed size isn't everything. Thats what my girlfriend says anyway 
AMD cards all have lower clocks to their Nvidia equals but can have better texture and shading units etc plus a totally different architecture and arent really comparable. I'd pay more attention to fps benchmarks than clockspeed..
AMD cards all have lower clocks to their Nvidia equals but can have better texture and shading units etc plus a totally different architecture and arent really comparable. I'd pay more attention to fps benchmarks than clockspeed..
SchizTech
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There are a few things going on here. Even in CPUs there are differences between single core performance and core count, and 1GHz on an Intel core won't run the same as the same on an AMD core. Also there are changes generation to generation, which really boils it down to particular chip design.
TO start with, you're comparing AMD to Nvidia GPUs. The core designs are even more different than Intel vs AMD CPUs, and one Nvidia core can't be compared to an AMD GPU core. Modern GPUs by nature are far more parallelized than CPUs, which is to say they run with a huge number of relatively simple cores compared to the CPU with it's smaller number of powerful cores. Thus, core count matters a lot. There are also other elements in the design of the whole unit which affect how a card plays. It's not as simple as MHz, so really judge cards by their performance in games.
TO start with, you're comparing AMD to Nvidia GPUs. The core designs are even more different than Intel vs AMD CPUs, and one Nvidia core can't be compared to an AMD GPU core. Modern GPUs by nature are far more parallelized than CPUs, which is to say they run with a huge number of relatively simple cores compared to the CPU with it's smaller number of powerful cores. Thus, core count matters a lot. There are also other elements in the design of the whole unit which affect how a card plays. It's not as simple as MHz, so really judge cards by their performance in games.
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Clock speed size isn't everything. Thats what my girlfriend says anyway AMD cards all have lower clocks to their Nvidia equals but can have better texture and shading units etc plus a totally different architecture and arent really comparable. I'd pay more attention to fps benchmarks than clockspeed..
AMD cards all have lower clocks to their Nvidia equals but can have better texture and shading units etc plus a totally different architecture and arent really comparable. I'd pay more attention to fps benchmarks than clockspeed..
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Generally speaking without trying to compare AMD to Nvidia in raw tech specs, the bus bandwidth is what makes the difference over raw speed. The 1050Ti has a relatively narrow 128-bit memory bus. The RX 470 has twice that with a 256-bit bus. This means more instructions can be passed in a cycle.
The easiest way to think of it is to compare a 2-lane highway moving traffic at 80mph and a 4-lane highway moving traffic at 60mph. The slower 4-lane highway will actually move much more traffic in the same distance over the faster but smaller 2-lane highway.
The easiest way to think of it is to compare a 2-lane highway moving traffic at 80mph and a 4-lane highway moving traffic at 60mph. The slower 4-lane highway will actually move much more traffic in the same distance over the faster but smaller 2-lane highway.
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You'll probably get slight bottleneck with a 470 tbh but it does beat the 1050Ti pretty easily in most games http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2658-gtx-1050-ti-and-1050-review-benchmarks-vs-460-more/page-4
Whether you have a good enough CPU (and a minimum 450/500w PSU) is another question. You should still get ok fps with either card.
Whether you have a good enough CPU (and a minimum 450/500w PSU) is another question. You should still get ok fps with either card.
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