GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon HD 6970

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6970, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 880 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1375 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1536 SPUs, 96 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation 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
Radeon HD 6970		3470 points
	Difference: 8196 (236%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon HD 6970 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6970		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 160000 (91%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black will be quite a bit (more or less 153%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 6970. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6970		84480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 128880 (153%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black will be much (approximately 52%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 6970, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6970		28160 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14512 (52%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.