GeForce GTX 960 vs Geforce GTX 1080 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, which uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1480 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM is set to run at a speed of 1376 MHz on this particular card. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units 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 better than 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 is quite a bit (more or less 360%) faster with regards to 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

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 960, by a large margin. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's 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 higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.