GeForce GT 310 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Nvidia Titan X, which comes with core 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 TAUs and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 310		31 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 219 Watts (706%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Nvidia Titan X should be much faster than the GeForce GT 310 in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GT 310		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 475520 (2972%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be a lot (more or less 6636%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 310. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 310		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 312696 (6636%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is a lot (about 5674%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 310, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 310		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 133676 (5674%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus 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 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.