GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, which comes with core clock speeds of 1350 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 11264 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 4352 SPUs as well as 272 Texture Address Units and 88 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 RTX 2080 Ti		31381 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 23754 (311%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		630784 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 518784 (463%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti will be a lot (more or less 409%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		367200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 295072 (409%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		118800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 82736 (229%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card 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 clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.