GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) vs GeForce GTX Titan X

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX Titan X, which has core speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 12288 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 3072 SPUs as well as 192 TAUs and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		150 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX Titan X should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM) in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		108800 MB/sec
	Difference: 227200 (209%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X is a lot (more or less 427%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		192000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		36400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 155600 (427%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan X is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		96000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 (OEM)		20800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 75200 (362%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB 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 speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.