GeForce GTX Titan vs Geforce GTX 680

Intro

Compare those specs to the Geforce GTX 680, which features core speeds of 1006 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1536 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Display Graphs

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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 GTX Titan		10162 points
Geforce GTX 680		7650 points
	Difference: 2512 (33%)

Grand Theft Auto V | 1920x1080 | Very High

GeForce GTX Titan		52 FPS
Geforce GTX 680		38 FPS
	Difference: 14 (37%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Geforce GTX 680		195 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (28%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan should in theory be a lot faster than the Geforce GTX 680 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 96128 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan will be a lot (approximately 46%) faster with regards to AF than the Geforce GTX 680. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 58720 (46%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is a lot (about 25%) faster with regards to AA than the Geforce GTX 680, and able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7984 (25%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.