GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX Titan, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 837 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1502 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also features 2688 SPUs, 224 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		10162 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 2535 (33%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 176384 (157%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is a lot (more or less 160%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 115360 (160%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is a better choice, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4112 (11%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many 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.