GeForce GTX 960 vs Geforce GTX 770

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Geforce GTX 770, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1046 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1753 MHz on this particular model. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units 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 770		7854 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 227 (3%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
Geforce GTX 770		70 Sol/s
	Difference: 84 (120%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 770		14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (27%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Geforce GTX 770		230 Watts
	Difference: 110 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 770 should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		224384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112384 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 is much (more or less 86%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		133888 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 61760 (86%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 770		33472 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2592 (8%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.