GeForce GTX 960 vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare that to the Geforce GTX 760, which has a clock frequency of 980 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1502 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1152 SPUs, 96 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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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 960		7627 points
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 1704 (29%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 2 (18%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (42%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 760, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 80256 (72%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is a lot (more or less 30%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21952 (30%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be a bit (more or less 15%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Geforce GTX 760, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4704 (15%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.