GeForce GTX 480 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare all that to the Nvidia Titan X, which has clock speeds of 1417 MHz on the GPU, and 1251 MHz on the 12288 MB of GDDR5X memory. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 Texture Address Units and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Nvidia Titan X should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 480 in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
	Difference: 314112 (177%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be quite a bit (approximately 656%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 275408 (656%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be quite a bit (about 305%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 480, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 102432 (305%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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