GeForce GT 310 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare all that to the Nvidia Titan X, which makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1417 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM is set to run at a speed of 1251 MHz on this card. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 speaking, the Nvidia Titan X should perform 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 should be quite a bit (more or less 6636%) faster with regards to AF 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 should be a lot (more or less 5674%) better at AA than the GeForce GT 310, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster 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 are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.