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 2050.

The GeForce GTX 2050 has a 282 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 780 Ti, but the GTX 780 Ti has 200 more Texture Mapping Units than the GeForce GTX 2050. As a result, the GTX 780 Ti exhibits a 203.1 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the GeForce GTX 2050. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The GeForce GTX 2050 has a 282 MHz higher core clock speed than the GTX 780 Ti, but the GTX 780 Ti has 16 more Render Output Units than the GeForce GTX 2050. As a result, the GTX 780 Ti exhibits a 8.2 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the GeForce GTX 2050. 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 GeForce GTX 2050, 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 GeForce GTX 2050 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 GeForce GTX 2050 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 GeForce GTX 2050, which means that the memory performance of the GTX 780 Ti is massively better than the GeForce GTX 2050.

The GeForce GTX 2050 has 640 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 780 Ti EVGA Classified Kingpin Edition has 2880. However, the actual shader performance of the GeForce GTX 2050 is 931 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 780 Ti is 3275. The GTX 780 Ti having 2344 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 GeForce GTX 2050.

The GeForce GTX 2050 transistor size technology is 14 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GTX 780 Ti. This means that the GeForce GTX 2050 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GTX 780 Ti.

The GeForce GTX 2050 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 GeForce GTX 2050 and a PSU with at least 600 Watts for the GTX 780 Ti. The GTX 780 Ti requires 175 Watts more than the GeForce GTX 2050 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 GeForce GTX 2050.