GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, which comes with core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 Texture Address Units and 96 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 980 Ti		17120 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 9493 (124%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		425 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
	Difference: 271 (176%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		22 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 11 (100%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 224000 (200%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a lot (about 144%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 103872 (144%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a lot (approximately 166%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 960, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 59936 (166%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.