GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs GeForce GTX 960

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 960, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1127 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 182912 (163%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is a lot (more or less 100%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		144000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 71872 (100%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 960, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		72000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 35936 (100%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.