GeForce GT 310 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 889 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 2880 SPUs along with 240 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 310		31 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 219 Watts (706%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GT 310 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 310		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 320000 (2000%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black is much (more or less 4428%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 310. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 310		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 208648 (4428%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black will be much (about 1711%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GT 310, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 310		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40316 (1711%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be processed per second. This number is worked out 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 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 the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.