GPU Specs and comparisons

[chazus]

I'm considering replacing my poor old 660 with a 1060, and I was curious as to the performance difference between them, based off sheer specs... And then I realized, I had no idea what I was looking at. Example:

660 - 960 CUDA, 980mhz clock, 78 bn/s fill rate
760 - 1152 CUDA, 980mhz clock, 94 bn/s fill rate (obciously an upgrade)
960 - 1024 CUDA, 1127mhz clock, 72 gigatexel/s fill rate (buh?)
1060 - 1280 CUDA, 1500mhz clock, 120-150 gt/s fill rate (different sources give different numbers)

Obviously, an actual benchmark would answer the question of whats better, by how much, but I'm more interested in what these numbers mean (and why the 960 looks worse, or what billion/s relates to gigatexel/s)

[Remilia]

The fill rate you're looking at is determined by the ROPs and what they're clocked and whether they can even be utilized properly or not at all. Has nothing to do with the CUDA count.

[Fascinate]

Really cant go by any of those numbers unless they are on the same architecture. Its kind of the same idea with compute power between amd and nvidia when talking teraflops.

For example the rx480 has more potential compute power (5.1 teraflops) than the 1060 (4.35) but in nearly every game the 1060 is faster. As for the 960 it was never really an upgrade to the 760, was pretty much a flop of a video card even nvidia stated if you owned a 760 you shouldnt upgrade to a 960.

I know you said you were more interested in those numbers, but here is a direct comparison of your card vs a founders 1060 with quite a few games listed:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1778?vs=1771

[Deleted]

buy a 1070

[Deleted]

buy a 1070

that is a good advice. i think the extra money will pay out!