GeForce GT 310 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which has clock speeds of 889 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2880 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs 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

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should theoretically be much faster than 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 should be a lot (approximately 4428%) better at texture 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

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is superior to the GeForce GT 310, by a large margin. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.