GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX Titan, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 837 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1502 MHz on this particular model. It features 2688 SPUs as well as 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

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX Titan should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is quite a bit (approximately 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

The GeForce GTX Titan is just a bit (approximately 11%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 960, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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