GeForce GT 230 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare all that to the Nvidia Titan X, which features core speeds of 1417 MHz on the GPU, and 1251 MHz on the 12288 MB of GDDR5X memory. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 Texture Address Units and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 speaking, the Nvidia Titan X will be 1180% quicker than the GeForce GT 230 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be much (about 3507%) faster with regards to 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 should be quite a bit (more or less 2992%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 230, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high 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 number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.