GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 960

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 960, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1127 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		150 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 960 should in theory perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		108800 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (3%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is a lot (more or less 98%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		36400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35728 (98%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is quite a bit (about 73%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM), and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		20800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15264 (73%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.