NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1060 AMP Edition 6GB GDDR5X (ZT-P10620C-10M)

The maximum pixel fillrate is dependent on graphics clock and the number of ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines). The GeForce GTX 1060 AMP Edition 6GB GDDR5X has a big lead in this area, as it has many more Raster Operations Pipelines (ROPs), and runs at higher rate. Having better pixel fillrate allows the graphics card to draw more pixels on screen and off screen, which is beneficial for some 3D effects in games, or when playing at higher display resolutions.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1060 AMP Edition 6GB GDDR5X GPU has many more Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics unit. Additionally, its graphics clock rate is higher, therefore it is not surprising to see that its texture fillrate is much higher. Better maximum texture fill rate means that the graphics card can utilize more complex 3D effects and/or map more textures to each textured picture element, which improves games visual appearance.

Maximum Single Precision performance, measured in GFLOPS or billions of Floating Point Operations Per Second, indicates how fast the GPU is at running applications, that use single-precision floating point numbers. All single-precision calculations are performed by CUDA cores or stream processors, as such the more cores / processors the graphics card has the better. Performance also depends on the processor clock rate. The GeForce GTX 1060 AMP Edition 6GB GDDR5X graphics card is substantially faster here. Higher single-precision performance number means the GPU will perform better in general computing applications. Since CUDA cores or stream processors are also used as vertex and geometry shaders for 3D image generation, higher performance is also beneficial to games.

Memory bandwidth parameter specifies how much memory (in Gigabytes) the graphics card can read from or write to dedicated memory per second. Graphics cards with higher memory bandwidth have better performance at high display resolutions, or when using large and detailed textures, and/or utilizing complex 3D effects and filters, like anti-aliasing. The bandwidth is dependent on a few components, such as memory type, speed, and width of memory interface. Specifically, the GeForce GTX 1060 AMP Edition 6GB GDDR5X graphics card offers wider memory bus. As a result, it has more memory bandwidth.