GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce GTX Titan X

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX Titan X, which uses 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 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 1060 3GB		12185 points
	Difference: 5694 (47%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan X should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 139392 (71%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan X is quite a bit (approximately 77%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		192000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 83568 (77%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan X is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan X		96000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23712 (33%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to 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 ability to reach the maximum fill rate.