GeForce GTX 960 vs Geforce GTX 1080 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, which has a clock speed of 1480 MHz and a GDDR5X memory speed of 1376 MHz. It also features a 352-bit bus, and uses a 16 nm design. It is comprised of 3584 SPUs, 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 960		7627 points
	Difference: 20002 (262%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		710 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
	Difference: 556 (361%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 383616 (343%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 360%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 259392 (360%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti will be quite a bit (about 261%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 960, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 94176 (261%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core 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 also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.