GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare that to the Nvidia Titan X, which comes with a clock speed of 1417 MHz and a GDDR5X memory frequency of 1251 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit bus, and makes use of a 16 nm design. It features 3584 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 460 SE		150 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Nvidia Titan X should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 460 SE in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		108800 MB/sec
	Difference: 382720 (352%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is much (approximately 917%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 286208 (917%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		20800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 115232 (554%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.