GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce GTX Titan X

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX Titan X, which features GPU clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 12288 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 3072 SPUs, 192 Texture Address Units, and 96 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 X		17879 points
GeForce GTX 590		6680 points
	Difference: 11199 (168%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX Titan X		250 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX Titan X should be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 590 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
	Difference: 7680 (2%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X is much (about 147%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 590. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		192000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 114304 (147%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X will be much (more or less 65%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 590, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		96000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37728 (65%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel 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 potential to reach the maximum fill rate.