GeForce GTS 150 vs GeForce GTX 1060

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
GeForce GTS 150		141 Watts
	Difference: 21 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1060 should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTS 150 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 150		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 164608 (514%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is quite a bit (more or less 154%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTS 150. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTS 150		47360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 73120 (154%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is superior to the GeForce GTS 150, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 150		11840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60448 (511%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.