GeForce GTX 580 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which has a clock speed of 889 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 384-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2880 SPUs, 240 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 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 should in theory 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 will be quite a bit (approximately 332%) better at 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

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should be a little bit (more or less 15%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 580, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.