GeForce GTX 590 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Nvidia Titan X, which features a core clock frequency of 1417 MHz and a GDDR5X memory frequency of 1251 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit bus, and makes use of a 16 nm design. It is made up of 3584 SPUs, 224 TAUs, and 96 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Nvidia Titan X should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GTX 590 in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
	Difference: 163200 (50%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be much (approximately 309%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 590. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 239712 (309%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be a lot (about 133%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 590, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 77760 (133%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.