GeForce GTX 580 3GB vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Nvidia Titan X, which makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1417 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM runs at a speed of 1251 MHz on this particular card. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 580 3GB		244 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 6 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Nvidia Titan X should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 580 3GB in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB		192384 MB/sec
	Difference: 299136 (155%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be a lot (more or less 542%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 580 3GB. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB		49408 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 268000 (542%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be much (more or less 267%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 580 3GB, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 580 3GB		37056 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 98976 (267%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

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