GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 928 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1350 MHz on this card. It features 768 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 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 1060		12359 points
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		3434 points
	Difference: 8925 (260%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1060 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 110208 (128%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be a lot (more or less 103%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 61088 (103%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be quite a bit (about 387%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, and should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 57440 (387%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.