GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1500 MHz on this model. It features 1344 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 24 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 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, the GeForce GTX 1060 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be a small bit (about 18%) faster with regards to AF 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%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.