GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs GeForce GTX 960

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 960, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1127 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti will be 163% faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti will be much (more or less 100%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is a lot (approximately 100%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 960, and able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.