GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs GeForce GTX 960

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 960, which features clock speeds of 1127 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti will be 163% faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 182912 (163%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti will be much (more or less 100%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		144000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 71872 (100%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 960, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		72000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35936 (100%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.