GeForce 810M vs GeForce GTX 960

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 960, which has core clock speeds of 1127 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 810M		15 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (700%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 960 should be 678% faster than the GeForce 810M overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
GeForce 810M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 97600 (678%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be a lot (approximately 1122%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 810M		5904 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 66224 (1122%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is superior to the GeForce 810M, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 810M		2952 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33112 (1122%)

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 moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip 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 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.