In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Asus Expedition 4GB are significantly better than the AMD Radeon HD 7850 XFX Ultra OC Edition.

The GTX 1050 Ti has a 315 MHz higher core clock speed than the HD 7850, but the HD 7850 has 16 more Texture Mapping Units than the GTX 1050 Ti. As a result, the HD 7850 exhibits a 0.5 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 315 MHz higher core clock speed than the HD 7850 and the same number of Render Output Units. This results in the GTX 1050 Ti providing 10.1 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The HD 7850 was released over three years more recently than the GTX 1050 Ti, and so the HD 7850 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.

The GTX 1050 Ti has 3072 MB more video memory than the HD 7850, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, the overall memory performance is about the same.

The HD 7850 has 41.5 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 1050 Ti, which means that the memory performance of the HD 7850 is noticeably better than the GTX 1050 Ti.

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Asus Expedition 4GB has 768 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon HD 7850 XFX Ultra OC Edition has 1024. However, the actual shader performance of the GTX 1050 Ti is 1443 and the actual shader performance of the HD 7850 is 849. The GTX 1050 Ti having 594 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the GTX 1050 Ti delivers a slightly smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the HD 7850.

The GTX 1050 Ti transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the HD 7850. This means that the GTX 1050 Ti is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the HD 7850.

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Asus Expedition 4GB requires 75 Watts to run but there is no entry for the Radeon HD 7850 XFX Ultra OC Edition. We would recommend a PSU with at least 300 Watts for the GTX 1050 Ti and a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the HD 7850. The HD 7850 has been recommended a PSU with 200 Watts more than the GTX 1050 Ti. The difference is significant enough that the HD 7850 may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the GTX 1050 Ti.