GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which has a core clock speed of 889 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 2880 SPUs, 240 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 Titan Black		11666 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 4039 (53%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 224000 (200%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should be much (about 196%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 141232 (196%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is a better choice, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6608 (18%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output 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 ability to reach the maximum fill rate.