GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also features 2816 Stream Processors, 176 TAUs, 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

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than 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 quite a bit (approximately 144%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a better choice, by far. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can 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 core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.