GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 889 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 2880 SPUs as well as 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 460		2557 points
	Difference: 9109 (356%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan Black, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 460 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 249600 (289%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should be quite a bit (more or less 464%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 175560 (464%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26472 (163%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 maximum number of 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 worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.