GeForce GTX 295 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Nvidia Titan X, which uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1417 MHz. The GDDR5X memory works at a speed of 1251 MHz on this particular model. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
GeForce GTX 295		289 Watts
	Difference: 39 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Nvidia Titan X should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 295 overall. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 295		223776 MB/sec
	Difference: 267744 (120%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be much (more or less 244%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 295. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 295		92160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 225248 (244%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 295		32256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 103776 (322%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 maximum fill rate.