GeForce GTX 295 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare all that to the Nvidia Titan X, which has GPU core speed of 1417 MHz, and 12288 MB of GDDR5X memory set to run at 1251 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 3584 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, 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 295		289 Watts
	Difference: 39 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Nvidia Titan X, in theory, should perform much faster than 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 will be quite a bit (about 244%) faster with regards to 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 a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is superior to the GeForce GTX 295, by a large margin. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of 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 bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.