In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti EVGA Classified Kingpin Edition are significantly better than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Galax OC 4GB.

The GTX 1050 Ti has a 231 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 780 Ti, but the GTX 780 Ti has 192 more Texture Mapping Units than the GTX 1050 Ti. As a result, the GTX 780 Ti exhibits a 194.8 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the GTX 1050 Ti. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The GTX 1050 Ti has a 231 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 780 Ti, but the GTX 780 Ti has 16 more Render Output Units than the GTX 1050 Ti. As a result, the GTX 780 Ti exhibits a 9.8 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the GTX 1050 Ti. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The GTX 780 Ti was released over three years more recently than the GTX 1050 Ti, and so the GTX 780 Ti is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the GTX 1050 Ti when running the latest games.

Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.

The GTX 1050 Ti has 1024 MB more video memory than the GTX 780 Ti, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, the overall memory performance is about the same.

The GTX 780 Ti has 223.9 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 1050 Ti, which means that the memory performance of the GTX 780 Ti is massively better than the GTX 1050 Ti.

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Galax OC 4GB has 768 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 780 Ti EVGA Classified Kingpin Edition has 2880. However, the actual shader performance of the GTX 1050 Ti is 1469 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 780 Ti is 3275. The GTX 780 Ti having 1806 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the GTX 780 Ti delivers a massively smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the GTX 1050 Ti.

The GTX 1050 Ti transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GTX 780 Ti. This means that the GTX 1050 Ti is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GTX 780 Ti.

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Galax OC 4GB requires 75 Watts to run and the GeForce GTX 780 Ti EVGA Classified Kingpin Edition requires 250 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 300 Watts for the GTX 1050 Ti and a PSU with at least 600 Watts for the GTX 780 Ti. The GTX 780 Ti requires 175 Watts more than the GTX 1050 Ti to run. The difference is significant enough that the GTX 780 Ti may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the GTX 1050 Ti.