GeForce GTX 950 vs Geforce GTX 1080 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications 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 memory runs at a speed of 1376 MHz on this specific model. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 88 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 1080 Ti		27629 points
GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
	Difference: 21093 (323%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		710 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 950		155 Sol/s
	Difference: 555 (358%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (178%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 389888 (369%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti will be a lot (more or less 574%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 282368 (574%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti will be a lot (about 297%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTX 950, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 97472 (297%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.