GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX Titan, which has a core clock frequency of 837 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1502 MHz. It also features a 384-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2688 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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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 970		10867 points
GeForce GTX Titan		10162 points
	Difference: 705 (7%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GTX 970 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 64384 (29%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is a lot (about 72%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78288 (72%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 will be much (about 67%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX Titan, and able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 27024 (67%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over 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 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.