GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon HD 6970

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6970, which features a GPU core clock speed of 880 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1375 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1536 Stream Processors, 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

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should be a lot faster 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 anisotropic filtering 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 is a lot (more or less 52%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 6970, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.