GeForce GTX 560 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which comes with a clock speed of 889 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 2880 SPUs, 240 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

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 Black		11666 points
GeForce GTX 560		3030 points
	Difference: 8636 (285%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 560 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560		128128 MB/sec
	Difference: 207872 (162%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black will be a lot (approximately 370%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		45360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 168000 (370%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560		25920 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16752 (65%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.