GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce GTX 285 1GB

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 285 1GB, which has core clock speeds of 648 MHz on the GPU, and 1242 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 240 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
GeForce GTX 285 1GB		204 Watts
	Difference: 84 Watts (70%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 285 1GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 285 1GB		158976 MB/sec
	Difference: 37632 (24%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB will be quite a bit (about 109%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 285 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 285 1GB		51840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56592 (109%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB will be much (about 249%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 285 1GB, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 285 1GB		20736 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 51552 (249%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.