GeForce GTX 980 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which features core clock speeds of 889 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM. 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 980		13552 points
GeForce GTX Titan Black		11666 points
	Difference: 1886 (16%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 980		165 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (52%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 980 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112000 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should be much (about 48%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 980. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 980		144128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 69232 (48%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 is superior to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980		72064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29392 (69%)

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 MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated 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 a second.

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