GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which has GPU clock speed of 889 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also features 2880 Stream Processors, 240 TAUs, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm		171 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 79 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm		111888 MB/sec
	Difference: 224112 (200%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should be a lot (about 414%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm		41472 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 171888 (414%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm		16128 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26544 (165%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.