GeForce GT 230 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare that to the Nvidia Titan X, which comes with clock speeds of 1417 MHz on the GPU, and 1251 MHz on the 12288 MB of GDDR5X RAM. 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)

GeForce GT 230		65 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 185 Watts (285%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Nvidia Titan X should be much faster than the GeForce GT 230 overall. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GT 230		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 453120 (1180%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be quite a bit (about 3507%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 230. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 230		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 308608 (3507%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be quite a bit (more or less 2992%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 230, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 230		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 131632 (2992%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.