GeForce GTX 960M vs Geforce GTX 1080 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, which makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1480 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1376 MHz on this card. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 88 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 1080 Ti		27629 points
GeForce GTX 960M		4350 points
	Difference: 23279 (535%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 185 Watts (285%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should be 674% quicker than the GeForce GTX 960M overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 431616 (674%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti will be a lot (about 656%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 287680 (656%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is quite a bit (about 643%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 960M, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 112704 (643%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.