GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs GeForce GTX 960

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 960, which comes with core speeds of 1127 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs 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 960		7627 points
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		3434 points
	Difference: 4193 (122%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (10%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 960 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 25600 (30%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be a lot (more or less 21%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12736 (21%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is quite a bit (more or less 143%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21216 (143%)

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 moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.