GeForce GT 320 vs GeForce GTX 1060

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 1060, which has core clock speeds of 1506 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 320		43 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 77 Watts (179%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1060 should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 320 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
GeForce GT 320		25280 MB/sec
	Difference: 171328 (678%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be quite a bit (more or less 830%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 320. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 320		12960 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 107520 (830%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be much (about 1573%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 320, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 320		4320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67968 (1573%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock 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 memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core 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 also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.