GeForce GTX 260 vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 950, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1024 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1652 MHz on this particular model. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce GTX 260		182 Watts
	Difference: 92 Watts (102%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 260 should in theory perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260		111888 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 6160 (6%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 will be much (more or less 33%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260		36864 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12288 (33%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is superior to the GeForce GTX 260, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260		16128 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16640 (103%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.