GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 889 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 2880 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs 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 1060 3GB		12185 points
GeForce GTX Titan Black		11666 points
	Difference: 519 (4%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black is quite a bit (about 97%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 104928 (97%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is superior to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 29616 (69%)

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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.