GeForce GTX Titan X vs Radeon HD 6970

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6970, which features a GPU core clock speed of 880 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1375 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1536 SPUs, 96 Texture Address Units, and 32 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
Radeon HD 6970		3470 points
	Difference: 14409 (415%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan X should in theory perform much faster than the Radeon HD 6970 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		336000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6970		176000 MB/sec
	Difference: 160000 (91%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X will be much (about 127%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6970. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		192000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6970		84480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 107520 (127%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan X is superior to the Radeon HD 6970, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		96000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6970		28160 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67840 (241%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units 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 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. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.