GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 960M

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 960M, which has core clock speeds of 1096 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 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 1050 Ti		7734 points
GeForce GTX 960M		4350 points
	Difference: 3384 (78%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 50688 (79%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be a lot (more or less 41%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18080 (41%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be much (more or less 135%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 960M, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23744 (135%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.