GeForce GTX 460 SE vs GeForce GTX 960

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 960, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1127 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 SE		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 960 should be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 SE in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		108800 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (3%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be quite a bit (about 131%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 40928 (131%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is superior to the GeForce GTX 460 SE, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		20800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15264 (73%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant 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.