GeForce GT 440 3GB vs GeForce GTX 960

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 960, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1127 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 440 3GB		56 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 64 Watts (114%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 960 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 440 3GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 3GB		43200 MB/sec
	Difference: 68800 (159%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be much (about 406%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 440 3GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 3GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57872 (406%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is superior to the GeForce GT 440 3GB, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 440 3GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21808 (153%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.