Nvidia Titan X vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 580, which comes with core clock speeds of 1257 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (35%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Nvidia Titan X should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon RX 580 in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 229376 (88%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X will be a lot (more or less 75%) more effective at AF than the Radeon RX 580. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 136400 (75%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be quite a bit (more or less 238%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 580, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 95808 (238%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at 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 could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). 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 ability to reach the max fill rate.