GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs GeForce GTX 960

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 960, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1127 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		10900 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 3273 (43%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		19 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 8 (73%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 780 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 224000 (200%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti is a lot (approximately 191%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		210000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 137872 (191%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti will be a bit (more or less 16%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 960, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		42000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5936 (16%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.