GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, which features a core clock speed of 1607 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 16 nm design. It features 2432 SPUs, 152 Texture Address Units, and 64 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 1070 Ti		19808 points
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		12185 points
	Difference: 7623 (63%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (33%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is much (approximately 125%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 135832 (125%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be much (more or less 42%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30560 (42%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a 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. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.