GeForce GTX 960 vs Geforce GTX 770

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 770, which has core clock speeds of 1046 MHz on the GPU, and 1753 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 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 770		7854 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 227 (3%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
Geforce GTX 770		70 Sol/s
	Difference: 84 (120%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 770		14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (27%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Geforce GTX 770		230 Watts
	Difference: 110 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 770 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		224384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112384 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 should be much (approximately 86%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		133888 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 61760 (86%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is superior to the Geforce GTX 770, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 770		33472 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2592 (8%)

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 moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on 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 bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.