GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 580, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1257 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 2000 MHz on this particular model. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 580		13630 points
GeForce GTX Titan Black		11666 points
	Difference: 1964 (17%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (35%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan Black, in theory, should be much faster than the Radeon RX 580 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 73856 (28%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black is a little bit (about 18%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 580. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 32352 (18%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is a better choice, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2448 (6%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.