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 memory running at 1502 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is comprised of 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

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX Titan should in theory be quite a bit superior to 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%) better at anisotropic filtering 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 should be a bit (about 11%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 960, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

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