GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 660

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 660, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 980 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1502 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 960 Stream Processors, 80 Texture Address Units, and 24 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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		7734 points
GeForce GTX 660		5063 points
	Difference: 2671 (53%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 660		140 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (87%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 660 should in theory be much better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660		144192 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 29504 (26%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 should be a lot (approximately 27%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660		78400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16480 (27%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be a lot (about 76%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 660, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 660		23520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17760 (76%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. 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 bandwidth is, 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 per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.