GeForce GTX Titan Black vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 580, which has core speeds of 1257 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Display Graphs

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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

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should theoretically be quite a bit superior to 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 (more or less 18%) better at AF 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 using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is the winner, though only just barely. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of 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 calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends 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.