GeForce GTX 970 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Nvidia Titan X, which uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1417 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM runs at a speed of 1251 MHz on this particular model. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 970		145 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 105 Watts (72%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Nvidia Titan X, in theory, should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 970 in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970		224000 MB/sec
	Difference: 267520 (119%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be much (more or less 191%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 970. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		109200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 208208 (191%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is superior to the GeForce GTX 970, by far. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 970		67200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 68832 (102%)

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 moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels 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 figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.