GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 2816 Stream Processors, 176 TAUs, and 96 ROPs.

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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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		425 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		290 Sol/s
	Difference: 135 (47%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		22 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		19 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (16%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		17120 points
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		12185 points
	Difference: 4935 (41%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 139392 (71%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be much (about 62%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 67568 (62%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23712 (33%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.