GeForce GTX 560 vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX Titan, which comes with clock speeds of 837 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2688 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 48 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 560		3030 points
	Difference: 7132 (235%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 560		150 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 560 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
	Difference: 160256 (125%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan will be much (more or less 313%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 142128 (313%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14256 (55%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.