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

Intro

Compare those specs 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 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 2880 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator 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

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should theoretically be a lot superior to 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 much (approximately 414%) faster with regards to 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 lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is superior to the GeForce GTX 260 216SP 55 nm, 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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 in a 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 figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel 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.