GeForce GT 130 vs GeForce GTX 1060

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 1060, which features a core clock speed of 1506 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also features a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 16 nm design. It is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 130		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (60%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1060, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 130 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 MB/sec
	Difference: 184608 (1538%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a lot (more or less 904%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 130. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 108480 (904%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 130		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 64288 (804%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

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