GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare all that to the Geforce GTX 760, which has core speeds of 980 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 96 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm		171 Watts
	Difference: 1 Watts (1%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Geforce GTX 760 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm		111888 MB/sec
	Difference: 80368 (72%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be much (approximately 127%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm		41472 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 52608 (127%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is superior to the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm		16128 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15232 (94%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.