GeForce GT 340 1GB vs GeForce GTX 1060

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 1060, which has GPU core speed of 1506 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 2000 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 1280 Stream Processors, 80 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 340 1GB		69 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 51 Watts (74%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1060 should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce GT 340 1GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		54400 MB/sec
	Difference: 142208 (261%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is quite a bit (more or less 585%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 340 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 102880 (585%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is a lot (about 1543%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GT 340 1GB, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67888 (1543%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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 is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.