GeForce GT 340 1GB vs GeForce GTX 1060

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1060, which features GPU clock speed of 1506 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 2000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 1280 Stream Processors, 80 TAUs, and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 340 1GB		69 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 51 Watts (74%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1060 should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GT 340 1GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 142208 (261%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be quite a bit (more or less 585%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 340 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 102880 (585%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is much (about 1543%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GT 340 1GB, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67888 (1543%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

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