GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GTX Titan X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX Titan X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 3072 SPUs as well as 192 Texture Address Units and 96 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 X		17879 points
GeForce GTX 480		3650 points
	Difference: 14229 (390%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX Titan X should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 480 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
	Difference: 158592 (89%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X is quite a bit (more or less 357%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		192000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 150000 (357%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X should be quite a bit (more or less 186%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 480, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		96000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 62400 (186%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.