GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 889 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 2880 SPUs along with 240 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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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
GeForce GTX 970		10867 points
	Difference: 799 (7%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (72%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan Black, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 970 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112000 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should be a lot (about 95%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 104160 (95%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24528 (57%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated 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 card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.