GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, which has a clock speed of 915 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1344 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 24 Raster Operation 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 660 Ti		6013 points
	Difference: 6346 (106%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 660 Ti		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1060 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti		144000 MB/sec
	Difference: 52608 (37%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a little bit (about 18%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti		102480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18000 (18%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a lot (approximately 229%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti		21960 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 50328 (229%)

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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core 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 also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.