GeForce GTX 950 vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which features a clock speed of 889 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 384-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2880 SPUs, 240 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 Black		11666 points
GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
	Difference: 5130 (78%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (178%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX Titan Black will be 218% faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 230272 (218%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black will be quite a bit (approximately 334%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 164208 (334%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9904 (30%)

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 past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out 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 rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.