GeForce GTX 260 vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 950, which has core clock speeds of 1024 MHz on the GPU, and 1652 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce GTX 260		182 Watts
	Difference: 92 Watts (102%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 260 should in theory be just a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260		111888 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 6160 (6%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 should be a lot (about 33%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 260. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260		36864 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12288 (33%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260		16128 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16640 (103%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved 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 it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.