GeForce GTX 580 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which has core clock speeds of 889 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2880 SPUs along with 240 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 Black		11666 points
GeForce GTX 580		4956 points
	Difference: 6710 (135%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 580		244 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 6 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan Black, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 580 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 580		192384 MB/sec
	Difference: 143616 (75%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should be a lot (more or less 332%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 580. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 163952 (332%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 580		37056 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5616 (15%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at 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 can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.