GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX Titan, which comes with a clock speed of 837 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1502 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 2688 SPUs, 224 TAUs, and 48 ROPs.

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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 590		6680 points
	Difference: 3482 (52%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 590 should in theory be a small bit superior to the GeForce GTX Titan overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
	Difference: 39936 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan will be much (approximately 141%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 590. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 109792 (141%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 590 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18096 (45%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.