GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce RTX 2060

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 2060, which has a clock speed of 1365 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit bus, and uses a 12 nm design. It is comprised of 1920 SPUs, 120 TAUs, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2060 should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 232064 (207%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be much (more or less 127%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 91672 (127%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be a lot (about 82%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 960, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29456 (82%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 can be applied per second. This number 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.