GeForce GTX 1060 vs Geforce GTX 770

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Geforce GTX 770, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1046 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1753 MHz on this card. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
Geforce GTX 770		70 Sol/s
	Difference: 241 (344%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Geforce GTX 770		7854 points
	Difference: 4505 (57%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Geforce GTX 770		230 Watts
	Difference: 110 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 770 should theoretically be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		224384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 27776 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 is a small bit (approximately 11%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		133888 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 13408 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is superior to the Geforce GTX 770, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 770		33472 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38816 (116%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs 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 rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.